Admiration Hyperbolique & Touchstone | Fionnuala Quinn at University of Galway

Event Details

Exhibitions continue 22 May – 8 August 2025.

10am-3pm Monday to Friday.

Admiration Hyperbolique and Touchstone. Fionnuala Quinn, Quadrangle, University of Galway.
Two exhibitions of paintings and installations by Fionnuala Quinn, artist in residence at the James Mitchell Geology Museum 2024-2025 showing in the Quadrangle, University of Galway, H91TK33. Opening hours: 10am-3pm Monday to Friday. Dates: 22 May-8 August.

TOUCHSTONE is in the ground floor Staff Club, ADMIRATION HYPERBOLIQUE is in the James Mitchell Geology Museum.

TOUCHSTONE is a series of responses to the search for solace in our cities. Our profound dependence on all of the materials of the earth may be forgotten when noisy human stories, of feuds and petty detail consistently play centre stage. Mineral pigment, water, paper and wood have been pushed and manipulated to form paintings about living in a restless zone. Respite from daily clock time, however brief, is sought so that the weight of the past can be shed as it tumbles down to join the traces of history retained in the bricks and mortar of the old city.

On the floor directly above in the Geology Museum, founded in the 1850’s, ADMIRATION HYPERBOLIQUE responds to the theme of time amongst the fossils, rocks and minerals. These specimens are deep time in material form and illustrate that, come what may, nature is never, ever, a miser. You are invited to post a comment in the box, if anything comes to mind…

Access: Accessible parking by the Quadrangle arch. The Staff Club is fully accessible from the street with all gender bathroom. Please note that the Museum on the first floor does not have step free access.