Irish Galon

Irish Glori Galon is a Boholana artist now making waves in the local art scene. A would-be architect, she chose to set aside her lucrative career in favor of her brushes, canvases, and paints.

Nonetheless, this decision led to several awards, such as winning the Grand Prize in PVAF, an honorable mention on AAP’s On-the-Spot competition, and a three-time Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) finalist.

Galon continues to wow the crowd with her surreal yet melancholic pieces that are actually an extension of her memory, the narrative of her past experiences, her hopes for the future, and the pulsations of her heart and soul.

Art and social critic, researcher and journalist Noel Sales Barcelona wrote about Galon in 2017: “(T)he works of Irish Glori Galon are but her realizations brought by the inner contradictions that she has experienced as an artist and as a human being; her observations about the external reality that surrounds her, and her pursuit of finding her own identity as an artist, as a woman and as a human being. Furthermore, they are the fruits of her quest for freedom, even though not absolute and complete, to create works that reflect her core values and beliefs. Because she has utilized that freedom carefully and consciously, without disregarding the paradoxes that she has experienced in the past and those she has been experiencing until today, the result is astonishing and amazing: artworks that can disturb the linear way of thinking and feeling and under-standing things; creations that can bring you into certain degree of social and spiritual realization; and master-pieces that possess true aesthetic and cultural value.”