Lucky Once

Galway Arts Centre is pleased to announce Lucky Once a solo exhibition by Colm Keady-Tabbal.

Lucky Once takes its structure from the artist’s forthcoming publication Applied, Misapplied*, a book containing instructions for the production of a future play based on the life and work of Harold Burris-Meyer. The instructions proposed suggest an outline for the play as a loose adaptation of Goethe’s Faust. The text presents extensive character notes and location descriptions along with the philosophical, and historical background deemed necessary for a potential theatrical adaptation
of the material. Like Faust, Applied, Misapplied* contains a series of “play within a play” scenarios. The exhibition comprises two of three films in a trilogy set in New Jersey, Derry, and Beirut, and a series of sonic and architectural interventions across two floors of Galway Art Centre.

Lucky Once opens December 14th, 6-8pm followed by performances by Eimear Walshe, Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Dylan Kerr at Nuns Island Theatre.

Colm Keady-Tabbal (they/them) is an Irish-Lebanese artist from Kinvara Co. Galway. Their work
has been exhibited and performed at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Wallach Gallery, IRCAM, Ormston House, and Cork Centre for Architectural Education. They received a BA in Fine art from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin and an MFA from Columbia University School of The Arts.

This exhibition has been supported through the Galway Arts Centre and Galway Culture Company Artists Bursary Award 2024.