Neither Seen Nor Heard, Arts Centre, Dominick Street.
In the weeks leading up to the Arts Festival, French artist Marylene Negro has been hard at work, canvassing the views of Galway people on anything and everything. Recorded on camera, the results will be edited and presented at the Arts Centre in Dominick Street Also exhibiting at the Arts Centre is British photographer, Martin Parr, pioneer of a style of informal sociological reportage that inspired just about every photography student. He's showing photographs taken at last year's Galway Races which, with the Negro vox pop, lends a distinctly navelgazing tone to the centre's Festival programme.
Sam Francis, University College, Galway: Lithographs and work on paper by one of the finest American painters of the century, Sam Francis. See 3.
Patrick O'Reilly, Aula Maxima, NUI, Galway
Back again after a spectacular Galway debut two years ago, Irish sculptor Patrick O'Reilly, accurately described as "a phenomenon", makes surreal, kinetic assemblages from a bewildering array of found and fashioned objects and materials. He exhibits staggering energy, and his work is hugely ambitious, maddeningly didactic and often very funny - though there is usually a very dark undercurrent.
