Avi Ratnayake Photography

12/09/2022

Delighted to be involved in doing some work for this wonderful festival celebrating traveller cultures from around the world. Check it and book your tickets 👇🏾

🎉 We are incredibly proud to announce the 2022 Misleór Festival Programme 🎉
We have a very exciting line-up of artists and events - check them out and book your tickets at our brand new website: www.misleor.ie

Thank you to our amazing funders and supporters: Arts Council Ireland, Galway Traveller Movement, Galway City of Film, Ardán, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Screen Ireland, Galway City Council, CreativeIrl, The Black Gate, Music Generation Galway City, Galway City Museum Ireland, Irish Architecture Foundation and Community Knowledge Initiative, University of Galway.

Galway Traveller Movement staff picking periwinkles on Grattan Beach! Photo by Avi Ratnayake Photography

13/07/2022

Check out the show by Engage Art Studios open during the Galway International Arts Festival

Engage Art Studios are delighted to present our members show 2022 as part of Galway International Arts Festival. Join us for our our opening reception on Tuesday 12th July at 6pm in our gallery space in Churchfields, Salthill. The exhibition will showcase work from 20 local visual artists
and will be open to the public:
Wednesday - Saturday
11am-4pm
13th-23rd July.
Featured artists include:
Red Burke • Karen Conway • Simon Daly • Maries Diez • Joan Finnegan • Noelle Gallagher • Jojo Hynes • Seamus Keane • Paul Malone • Stephanie McLaughlin • Elena Moreno • Hilary Morley • Brigid Mulligan • Tadhg Ó Cuirrín • Jane Queally•
Una Quigley • Avi Ratnayake • Vicky Smith • Joan Sugrue • Ruby Wallis

02/06/2022

Re/imagine Tuam 🤩🤩🤩

Whose Town? OUR TUAM

The pupils of 4th class at Tuam Educate Together with Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran are creatively engaging with their town through visual art, local walks and performance, capturing the children’s reimagining of what they want their Tuam to be.
With 📸 by Avi Ratnayake Photography

Everyone is invited to the exhibition of creations, ideas and interactive activities so that visitors get to play, think, read, and share their thoughts on Tuam.

The exhibition is opening to the public on
11th June at Tuam Library. Tuam Library
High Street Tuam Co. Galway H54F627
Open: 10:30am – 1pm & 2pm – 5pm

This project is part of Cruinniú na nÓg, The national day of free creativity for children and young people. https://cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ie/event/whose-town-our-tuam/Creativeirelandgalwaycounty




Jojo Hynes
Midie Corcoran
Tuam Educate Together National School

10/04/2022

Had the joy of listening to the sweet music of at the Queen Street Galway on a Sunday afternoon. Check them out for some earcandy!!

01/04/2022

what a great project to be part of. Much respect to , &



*image supplied by organizers

11/02/2022

Great to see a bunch of my photos on the TG4 website. Beautiful collaborations with musicians. All thanks to the great team behind The Black Gate. Stream them on TG4 👇🏾😀

https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/online-boxsets/?series=Cumasc:%20Seisi%C3%BAin%20sa%20Black%20Gate&genre=Ceol

02/02/2022

This 👇🏾 don't miss it!

We shared the logo for CUMASC: Seisiúin sa Black Gate earlier... And doesn't it look real nice above the lineup of artists that await once the series arrives on the TG4 Player on February 11 📺

You can watch the trailer for the show here:

bit.ly/CUMASCTrailer

That lineup in full:

Róisín Elsafty | Rhiannon Giddens | Francesco Turrisi
Daithí | Suzanne Savage
Rachael Lavelle | Peter Broderick
Seamus Begley | Junior Brother
Seamie O'Dowd | Daoirí Farrell
John Conneely Inc. | SÍOMHA
Jinx Lennon | The Mary Wallopers
Anna Mullarkey | New Jackson
Sam Amidon | Siobhán Peoples
Colm Mac Con Iomaire |
Arborist
Inni-K | John Blek
Liam Ó Maonlaí | Niwel Tsumbu | Eamonn Cagney

Photos by (Instagram) and Avi Ratnayake Photography

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CUMASC: Seisiúin sa Black Gate is kindly funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).

01/02/2022

Had the pleasure of seeing these gigs and capturing some of the magic. Be sure to check it out on release 11th Feb on TG4

31/01/2022

mirror finish just last week on Lough Bofin in Connemara

25/01/2022

Make sure to catch this show 👇🏾 - Gol - when it opens up again. Excellent piece of theatre. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤩👀👂🏾

Happy 70th Birthday to !🎉
Go raibh míle maith agaibh as ocht an tacíocht le linn na mblianta.
Pictured in Brú Theatre’s Gol, photographer .ratnayake.photography

24/12/2021

Here's a beautiful yet Christmas on steroids window display I found. It's CHRISTMAS!!!!! And happy holidays folks, thank you to all who took part in the workshops and stood in front of my camera. May 2022 bring you better things. Much love to you all.

17/12/2021

It was a pleasure to zoom into the opening night of the second installment of Dear WWW curated by Been-Noon, and powered by glór in Ennis and PAVED Arts in Canada. Many thanks to my collaborator Linda Duvall for all the chats and experiments. It was worth staying up for 😀🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Thank you for having me. 😀