26 April,
Free Event /
As if nothing could fall: Essays on Monuments
Sunday, 26 April 2026, 2:00pm
Galway Arts Centre / Free
From the epic megastructure to the fleeting memorial, this new anthology from PVA explores the mechanisms of monuments, the carving of totems to mark the passage of time, from the grand narratives of history to the intimate personal memories. These essays offer a profound curiosity and questioning of not just the multivalent meanings of monuments but also of the importance and fragility of the forces that seem to hold them in place. Join editor Nathan O’Donnoll and curator and writer Beulah Ezeugo, in conversation with Padraig Regan.
Nathan O’Donnell is a writer, curator, and one of the co-editors of PVA (Journal + Books). His work is grounded in the fields of contemporary art and experimental publishing. In 2020, with Marysia Wieckiewicz, he founded Numbered Editions, an experimental imprint for artists’ writing across forms (visual art, dance, theatre, literature). From 2018 to 2025, he was a curatorial Associate at IMMA. He has been awarded artist’s commissions for performances, publications, and public art projects from Dublin City Arts Office, the Arts Council of Ireland, IMMA, Ormston House, and South Dublin County Council. He was writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2021–22; and a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. He teaches on the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD and in 2026 he will curate the Dublin Art Book Fair for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Beulah Ezeugo is a curator and writer. Her practice engages with national identity and memory and expands outward through writing, exhibition-making, and public programming. Beulah was curator of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and is a cofounder (with Joselle Ntumba) of Éireann and I, a community archive and memory project. She is currently a curator at Peer Gallery, London.
Padraig Regan is a poet and essayist based in Belfast, with interests in the relationship between writing and the visual arts. Their debut collection of poems Some Integrity was published in 2022 by Carcanet and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Their second book, The Matter, is forthcoming in 2026, also from Carcanet. From 2022-2024, they were a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts and in 2025, they were a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.
