Overview
126 Artist – Run Gallery & Studios proudly presents Brass Waterbed, a solo exhibition by Tadhg Ó Cuirrín as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2026.
Brass Waterbed begins as a reconstruction, from memory, of every bedroom the artist has ever lived in. Taking the form of a two-channel video installation, the work is haunted by questions of memory, housing, and what representation can and cannot hold. However convincing the likeness, something always escapes it – a faithful representation often reveals little. Here autobiography functions as a demeanour. A social form rather than a truthful one. The work is less interested in the self than in the structures that ask for it.
Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is a visual artist based in Galway, working across painting and digital media. He has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Pallas Projects/Studios, Ormston House, and TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway. His work is supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta.
Exhibition Launch: Sunday 12th July at 5pm.
Open daily from Monday 13th – Sunday 26th July 2026, 12pm – 6pm.
Curated by Jamie Bigley & Emily Lohan.
