Visual Art: Accessible Tours at the Hugh Lane Gallery in January 2025

Join the Hugh Lane Gallery for their monthly programme of accessible tours.

Live Audio Description of La Grande Illusion Wednesday 15 January at 12 noon

Join the gallery for a live online audio description programme for people with a visual impairment. You will explore the exhibition La Grande Illusion live on Zoom, led by art educator Fala Buggy.

Booking is free via hughlane.ie or by calling 01 222 55 60. A Zoom Meeting ID is forwarded closer to the start date.to all those registered.

Please do contact Tori Boccarossa of the Education Team on 01 222 55 60 should you require assistance with booking a place over the phone or should you wish to discuss anything further.

Tours for people who are hard of hearing or who have a hearing impairment Thursday 23 January at 11am 

Joing the gallery for their monthly programme of tours for people who are hard of hearing or who have a hearing impairment. The tour will focus on Brian Maguire’s La Grande Illusion and the artworks in Galleries 4 and 5,  Blood Rising with guide Tony Suttle.

For these tours, the gallery use devices as individual loop devices which connect with a microphone headset worn by the tour guide, that can transit to the loop devices. They can then be used by people with hearing aids to connect to or for those hard of hearing but who don’t have hearing aids, they can use their own or ADI’s earpieces.

Booking is free via hughlane.ie or by calling 01 222 55 60.

Please do contact Tori Boccarossa of the Education Team on 01 222 55 60 should you require assistance with booking a place over the phone or should you wish to discuss anything further.

Information on the T setting and Tours for Hearing Aid Users

It is necessary to have access to your T setting on your hearing aid to connect to the tour guide equipment.

Not all hearing aids actually have the T setting as part of their standard functions. However, the majority of hearing aids provided by the HSE do have the T setting available. The hearing aids need to be programmed by the audiologist to include the T-coil program/Loop program/ T setting. Then the hearing aid user needs to understand how to access that program option, which is usually through pressing a button on their hearing aid or selecting this program from a drop-down list on an app on their mobile phone.

Many hearing aids now have Bluetooth programs/ Bluetooth compatibility access as standard, however, these tend to be designed to function with brand-specific products and are not compatible with the equipment being used during this tour.

Images: Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion, installation view, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, and Remains.