

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Shapeshifting | GOMA Graduate Award Exhibition 2026
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 11:00 am – Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Each year GOMA Waterford aims to highlight the wealth of talent graduating annually in Ireland by awarding selected graduates with an exhibition. This year’s Graduate Award Exhibition features the work of three outstanding recent graduates; Danny Foley, Tanja Novacic and Patrick Penney.

Join us at GOMA Waterford for the launch of Shapeshifting: GOMA Waterford Graduate Award Exhibition 2026 on Thursday 29 January, 6–8pm. All welcome!

About the artists

Tanja Novacic

Working across sculpture, textiles, embroidery, and mixed media, Tanja Novacic explores folklore, memory, and the intersection of myth and lived experience. Working with light, shadow, and architectural forms, she draws from storytelling, ritual, and symbolism, merging these sources with familial history and personal narratives.

Patrick Penney

Patrick Penney’s focus at present is on the ideas of perception, inclusion, omission, and layers of history – how omission creates a narrative of history that is incomplete. In broader historical terms, but also personal familial terms, he has been examining atomic and nuclear history with a focus on William Penney. He works with archival materials that exist only in copies, as the originals no longer exist. Classification and declassification obscure and reveal information and imagery, changing the perception of the historical narrative. All of this adds to the historical context of the world we now occupy, and his intention is to establish a body of work that serves to warn and contribute to these things never being allowed to happen again.

Danny Foley

Through an intuitive and experimental approach to drawing, painting, and animation, Danny Foley’s  work explores the shapeshifter as both a concept and creative strategy within his artistic processes. Within his art practice, shapeshifting is considered an active, curious, and playful means of making art – where the edges of the self-dissolve and the human is reimagined. Mixed-media works and stop-motion animations unfold as metamorphic journeys within shared spaces, where creatures shift in and out of form, mirroring changes in state and being.

Shapeshifting runs from Thursday 29 January until Saturday 21 February 2026 | Gallery opening hours: 11am–5pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/waterford/shapeshifting-|-goma-graduate-award-exhibition-2026/200029657068219
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions, art, fine-arts, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Waterford
- **state**: WD
- **country**: Ireland
- **location**: 6 Lombard Street, Waterford, Ireland X91 F2XP
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- **long**: -7.10548
- **full address**: 6 Lombard Street, Waterford, Ireland X91 F2XP, Ireland

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford (https://allevents.in/org/goma-gallery-of-modern-art-waterford/3824022)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 11:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 6 Lombard Street, Waterford, Ireland X91 F2XP, Ireland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions, art, fine-arts, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Shapeshifting | GOMA Graduate Award Exhibition 2026 ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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