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Artist Hughie O'Donoghue in conversation with Galway International Arts Festival's Paul Fahy. Find out more about Nigh Cargo, Hughie O'Donoghue's latest GIAF exhibition: https://www.giaf.ie/festival/event/night-cargo-hughie-odonoghue Considered one of the leading painters of his generation, Hughie O'Donoghue's paintings frequently combine rich, expressionist colours and textures, verging on the abstract, when addressing a particular event or history. Night Cargo, presented at the Galway International Arts Festival Gallery as part of GIAF's September 2020 Autumn Edition, brings together a group of new and related paintings. Hughie O’Donoghue has a long association with Galway International Arts Festival. His first exhibition with the Festival in 2006 was followed by major shows in 2011 and most recently in 2016, when GIAF commissioned the artist to create a major exhibition of new work, marking Ireland’s centenary celebrations: One Hundred Years and Four Quarters. Video by Moose https://www.wearemoose.ie/ ABOUT GIAF Galway International Arts Festival is a major cultural organization, which produces one of Europe’s leading international arts festivals; develops and produces new work that tours nationally and internationally; and presents a major discussion platform, First Thought Talks. Galway International Arts Festival 2021 takes place 12-25 July 2021 and will feature the very best of the performing and visual arts from Ireland and around the world, with an international programme of theatre, dance, circus, exhibitions, spectacle, music, comedy, talks and discussions. Don't want to miss a beat on Galway International Arts Festival 2020? Then subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GalwayInternationalArtsFest Twitter: https://twitter.com/galwayintarts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/galwayintarts

We visit Hughie O'Donoghue RA in his London studio, as he works on a new canvas and reflects on how, for him, the painting process is akin to "reverse archaeology". Read more about his exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/hughie-o-donoghue-ra-at-marlborough

The artist discusses his exhibition 'Artists' Laboratory 05: Hughie O'Donoghue RA - Painting/Memory' at the Royal Academy of Arts, 29 August—14 October 2012. O’Donoghue's paintings are characterised by their exploration into the past and preoccupation with history, artefacts and mythology. The five works within this exhibition reflect the personal experiences of O’Donoghue’s father, Daniel O’Donoghue, during the Second World War and they came about as a consequence of sorting out his father’s personal effects after his death. For more information see www.royalacademy.org.uk/hughieodonoghue

In conversation with Michael Peppiatt and Grey Gowrie

Audio slideshow interview with the artist Hughie O'Donoghue for the Irish Times on the occasion of the hanging of his major exhibition of 27 works at IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 2009.