ARCHITECTS and artists will come together at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) this week to participate in public talks centring on the interpretation of the world around us through art. There’s an open invitation to all to join this free engagement with these artists exhibiting at Pery Square.
Niamh McCann, who has exhibited extensively in Europe, Ireland and in the USA employing a variety of working methods from drawing to sculpture, will be joined on Thursday 10 March at 6pm by Limerick architects Jack Byrne, Séamus Bairead and Gráinne Hassett (SAUL).
This roundtable conversation will be moderated by Dr. Niamh NicGabhann, Course Director of Festive Arts, UL. The major installation element of Just Left of Copernicus (A Prologue) in the Carnegie Gallery titled Section of ‘Copernicus for Now’ (B10-B22) is the result of the collaboration between McCann, Bairead and Byrne and produced at Fablab, Limerick.
The second talk will take the form of an “in conversation” between artist, Sean Lynch and architect, Seán Ó Laoire (co-founder of Murray Ó Laoire Architects, 1979-2010) on Saturday 12 March at 3pm.
Lynch’s latest artwork ‘Adventure: Capital’ was commissioned for Ireland at Venice 2015. It was viewed by more than 400,000 people during the world’s most prestigious visual arts exhibition.
This sculptural installation is his most ambitious project to date and traces a journey that unravels notions of value and the flow of capital. Alongside ‘Adventure: Capital’, Lynch also presents a selection of previous artworks with particular reference to Limerick and the surrounding area.
