This exhibition will open on Saturday 3rd July at 5pm
These three artists roam the roads of Clare; no longer with knapsack and easel but driving as we all do, and suddenly seeing something across a field or even in the wing of a mirror.
Mike O'Connorarrives home with scrapes of notes and pencil-drawings, which alsomay stay pinned inview for many months before being processed as a black and white or multicolour linocut. The need then, since a print is made through indirect stages, is to restore the energy of the first viewing - through varied style / technique of block cutting and hand printing.
Tom Prendergasthunts by road , from Kilkee to Kilbaha, often spending painstaking hours on a postcard size oil painting onto hardboard. Other images are brought home to be formalized into strong, simple elements with cutout paper.
or Richard Sharpand his dog there will be a screech of brakes, a clatter of dulex cans, and some bright thing will be rapidly recorded in pastels, Indian Ink or gloss paint, on canvas or MDF board. Some will be completed in minutes while others may wait their turn for a year before being resolved.
Niamh Parsons has come to be known as one of the most distinctive voices in Irish music. She will give a concert tonight in the Courthouse Gallery at 9pm. She will be playing in a duet with Graham Dunne. Admission €13
Site Meetings 170610 was performed today by Maria Kerin and Maeve Collins and broadcast from a specific street sculpture site in the AbunDANCE International Choreography and Dance Festival in Karlstad, Sweden. It was broadcast using Skype new media and video projection, and our audience experienced it LIVE here in the Gallery in Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
Contact: +353 (0)65 707 1630, or email: ennistymoncourthousegallery@gmail.com. The Courthouse Gallery, which is part of the Courthouse Studios and Gallery, is a centre of artistic excellence and an integral part of Ennistymon and North Clare life. Five artists’ studios, a sound recording studio, a main art gallery, and the smaller Red Couch gallery space are based in the newly renovated building.
The Courthouse Gallery seeks to attract local and national audiences by exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists, mainly focusing on emerging artists.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm (June – Oct) and 12 – 4pm (Nov – May)