The Galway Arts Festival has announced the recipients of the 2026 Elevate Bursary.
The creative support fund is worth €45 thousand - and more than 70 applications were received, totaling €570 thousand.
€10 thousand has been awarded to Rabie Mustapha for a project called 'My Nakba, my Liberation'.
It's a video-based interactive artwork centered on his personal Palestinian experience of displacement, migration and loss of home.
A further €10 thousand's been allocated to Luke Reidy, whose project is simply entitled 'Future'.
It'll transform the Outset Gallery into two bold, experimental modern interiors, rooted in his abstract style and research into visual perception.
Meanwhile, €5 thousand each has been awarded to the following artists:
Arts Alive Galway and Gary Walshe for an interactive exhibition that transforms into a fully accessible live performance at night.
Dolores Lyne for a reflection on the Irish Civil War inspired by a series of letters, entitled 'Rebel Kin: To the Letter'.
And Enda Burke for a new photographic series exploring masculinity among adolescents and young adults in modern Ireland.
Additional bursaries went to Amanda Feery for an uilleann pipe experience, and Stanislav Von Euw, for a project how ocean acidification can be made visible through an art-science approach.
