Advisory Board
The advisory board maintains the long-term memory of 126 gallery. As well as advising the Board of Directors on a range of issues, they actively advocate for the gallery to support its work.
Lily O’Shea is a visual artist and writer based in Galway concerned with political questions surrounding the contemporary labourer. Lily’s work utilizes performance, sculpture, and text to expand on the materiality of precarity while foregrounding various anxieties endured by the modern-day worker. Lily recently received the Creative Practitioners Bursary 2023 from the Galway City Council.
Conor Burke is a multi-media Visual Artist based in Galway City. Burke has a Masters in Art & Design Education (TUS, Limerick) as well as a BA in Fine Art/ Art and Design with digital media from ATU (Galway). He is a founding member of Unit-22 artist collective and currently works out of Mart studios Galway.
Burke incorporates strong architectural and construction based elements into his work which are often laden with political and philosophical underpinnings which emanate from his role as community activist, Burke's work is concerned with processes of change, with a strong emphasizes on transitions between concept and materiality.
The advisory board maintains the long-term memory of 126 gallery. As well as advising the Board of Directors on a range of issues, they actively advocate for the gallery to support its work.
Location 1 – 126 Laurel Park – 2005
Austin Ivers, Ben Geoghegan
Location 2 – Ballybane Beg – 2006
Eileen Healy, Aideen Barry, Megs Morley, Niall Moore, Sharon O’Grady, Norma Collins, Martin Rochford, Aoife Cassidy, Linda Monks, Jojo Hynes, Jim Ricks
Location 3 – Queen St. – 2009
Dave Callan, Alwyn Revill, Ann Maria Heally, Gina Ruane, Grainne McHale, Simon Fleming, Victoria Smith, David Finn, Jeroen van Dooren, Lisa Sweeney, Matthew Doherty, Allison Regan, Siobhan McGibbon, Zulaikha Engelbrecht, Anne O’Byrne, David O’Malley, Noel Arrigan, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
Location 4 – Flood St. – 2014
Anne Marie Mc Kee, Bernie O’Donnell, Katriona Gillepsie, Ramona Burke, Martina Finn, Cormac O’Neill, Shelly McDonnell, Marie Hannon, Martin Rochford, Helen Caird, Joan Sugrue, Carol Anne Connolly, Adrianne Parsons, Grace Mitchell, Marcel Badia, Eoghain Wynne
Location 5 – St. Bridget’s Pl. – 2016
Lucy Elvis, Johanna Kavanagh, Louise Spokes, Gino Querini, Joanne Couch, Phil Foley, Cliodhna Timoney, Blaithin Hughes, Stephan Roche, Victoria Furey, Connor Robertson, Rita McMahon, Ronan Connor, Emma Zukovic, Meadhbh McNutt, Sarah Keenan, Simon Fennessy Corcoran, Tom McLean, Kaitlynn Webster, Emily O’Brian, Emily O’Flynn, Morgan Madison, Mary McGraw, Méabh Noonan
In June 2014, 126 launched an internship programme in partnership with GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts & Media. The internship is awarded to recent graduates who apply through an open call and runs for six months every year. Those selected have the opportunity to take on tasks and learn new skills, they then have the task of curating an exhibition in the 126 Gallery at the end of the internship.