Our local library is housed on the ground floor of a building that has office space on the two floors above. To get to the library door, we pass the door of the art gallery next door. We've seen a couple of nice shows there and today we saw another as we stopped to have a look on our way in to pick up books.
This show is an exhibition of work done by many different artists, all from Gaeltacht (areas where Irish is used) areas along northern, western, and southern seaboards. There was quite a wide variety of work on display. There was no prohibition on taking photos, so I snapped a few of my favourite pieces of work and the information provided about each one. The first line is the name of the artist. The second is the title of the piece. The third is a list of the technique and materials used. The fourth is the location where the work was created.
I didn't crop the first photo because I liked the shadow and I wanted to leave the social distancing poster in--sign of the times. There was no one there except us, but we were masked as still required indoors.
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| can't really see the insert or detail, but you get the general idea |
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| the location is Galway |
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| the entire piece is covered in small beads |
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| the location is Donegal |
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| detail |
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| the location is Galway |
So as not to overload one post with too many photos, I will post the remaining few tomorrow.
4 comments:
Beautiful! I love art but haven't been to a museum for a few years. This post makes me want to go asap.
Glad to have an art gallery locally! We've missed that. We were heavily involved in the art community in a previous place we lived (in the US). Hoping the next place we live here has one I can volunteer/get involved with!
Some unique and lovely art. I especially like the Paper Cut. Nice to have a gallery so close by.
It's great to see it being used again. For the first few months we were here, it was closed because of the pandemic. There is art exhibited in the library, too. Just a corner where people can display their work, but it's cool that it's there.
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