✂️Upcoming Exhibition - The Lexicon of Wonder - Thursday October the 8th - Friday, November 6th, 2026 at The University of Galway Art Gallery, University Road, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland, H91 TK33.✂️

✂️⚡️Upcoming Solo Exhibition - The Lexicon of Wonder⚡️✂️
Opening: Thursday October the 8th at 6pm GMT
Running until: Friday, November 6th, 2026.
At:
The University of Galway Art Gallery,
The Quadrangle,
University Road,
Galway,
Co. Galway,
Ireland,
H91 TK33,

In collaboration with the University of Galway Art Gallery and Project RARE, I am really excited to announce the launch of an upcoming exhibition of 'The Lexicon of Wonder' project.

This project featuring an exhibition, workshops, discussions and an artist talk is inspired by recent research into the emotions of Wonder & Awe and into the arts as a deep technology for evoking these states in both practitioner and audience.

Here is a little bit about the work:
”Wonder and Awe are complex emotions arising in response to experiences of profound beauty, connection, natural phenomena, or through bearing witness to the incredible capacities, courage or talents of other human beings. They can also arise at times of great personal crisis or fear such as witnessing the raw power of nature at a time of natural disaster.

Encountering reality through the states of Wonder and Awe can make an individual feel simultaneously small, and deeply connected to the world around them. They are emotions that inspire us to both transcend our own self interests and to delve deeply into our desire for greater understanding. They are in short the emotions of human discovery, and as such the unifying engines of the human curiosity behind philosophy, science and the arts.

For this exhibition I draw on the contemporary research of Psychologist Dacher Keltner and Philosopher Helen De Cruz into the importance of Wonder as a state of being. This new body of work is inspired by wonder, materials sourced from old children's scientific encyclopedias and contemporary collage techniques.

This project explores the arts themselves as a deep set of technologies that have the capacity to instillboth practitioners and viewers with a sense of Wonder at the boundless curiosity of scientific investigation and humanities deep connection with the natural world.”

For more from Project Rare Click Here.