The second Young Galway Artists exhibition featuring the work of three emerging Galway artists, Maeve Curtis, Angela O'Brien and John Brady, will run in the Norman Villa Gallery from Thursday 10 April to Saturday 26 April. The show opens at 6pm.

Maeve Curtis's much-admired ghost-like images are the result of the removal rather than the addition of pigment. Her work is based on the fiction that every time someone has a photograph taken a spectral layer is detached from the body and transferred to the photograph. Curtis explores this fiction through the consideration of the other in family snap shots, the strangers caught in the background unbeknownst to themselves.

Angela O Brien's mixed media works combine photography with the slower painterly abstraction of manual mark making. The end result is an exploration and mixing of the boundaries between the 'unreal' abstract and the so-called realism of photography.

John Brady paints about the things that contains us: houses that shelter us, windows that frame our views, and boats that transport us. His images are based on memory and invite us to make connections engaging with the viewer, setting up a playful dialogue. These immediate, often heavily layered works have instant appeal, but reward closer scrutiny giving slowly of themselves, revealing their inner complexities in a relaxed, enjoyable and direct way.

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