Exhibition POSTings
CITY and county venues provide a range of art exhibitions opening mid-month, coinciding with St Pat’s week and the opening of ev+a.
Arts page cannot provide attention to all but here is a chronological listing of those who have been in touch, and reference two more in the column below:
* Hunt Museum, Rutland Street: Mary Meskell and Josephine Geaney create joint show, Into The Abyss. Open Thursday March 12, 6pm.
* Jim Kemmy Municipal Museum at Castle Lane, Nicholas Street, opens Thursday March 12, 6.30pm to 8pm. Until June.
* County Library, Dooradoyle: Suzanne Fox’s works of mixed-media, Aftermath, is launched on Thursday March 12, 7.30pm. Until March 31.
* Limerick City Gallery of Art: ev+a 2009 Reading the City is launched by Mary Cloake, Arts Council, 7pm. Maps to other venues. Until May.
* Normoyle Frawley Gallery, John Street: John Collins’ show Sawdust and Spangle-Land is opened by film director/ writer David Gleeson on Friday March 13, 8pm.
Whistle stop bus tour
OPEN e v+ a 2009 Reading the City will be open for viewing from Saturday 11 at various locations throughout the city and there are two free bus tours.
Limerick City Gallery of Art is open from 10am and the first tour leaves at 11am and a second at 12noon to take visitors to all off-site locations including former LIT LSAD building at Georges Quay, Istabraq Hall at City Hall and the Hunt Museum.
These tour attendees will be the first to see the extensive ev+a 2009 exhibition. Afterwards the bus will depart from City Hall Carpark to Daghdha Space at 1pm, John’s Square for an e v+ a brunch at 1pm. The brunch will provide an opportunity to reflect on and discuss the exhibition, also providing an informal opportunity to meet the curators Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior and also some of the participating artists.
Memory, time and place
Margaret O’Brien, who has recently received her B.A in Fine Art Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design, is enjoying solo exhibition honours. Her first is current at thinkk creative gallery, 35 Cecil Street and refers to memory, time and place.
“The idea behind the work first came about when the artist stumbled across some old photographs which had been damaged by time and nature,” says gallery owner, Keith Kerley. “The work itself hopes to question photography and its way by which we remember occasions, events and place. By reinventing the photographs in paint, she hopes to draw a parallel between photography and painting and also question the use the use of photography as a way by which memories are preserved”.
Bronze installation of strength
Limerick Printmakers is host to an installation of bronze sculptural works by James Hayes, current until March 26. Supporters of the artist and indeed all art are welcome to attend a lunchtime 1pm lecture by Hayes this Friday March 13 at the Robert Street gallery and workspace.
Larger scale sculptural installations feature in this exhibition, as does sound, and video projection is used to juxtapose scenes, their references.
Limerick Printmakers is open Monday to Saturday for viewing.
CentreSpace Studios
CENTREStage Theatre School has launched CentreSpace Studios at St Alphonsus Street. Located beside Dolan’s Warehouse, it’s billed as “Limerick’s flexible rehearsal and studio performance space”.
