Explanations at the Courthouse Gallery

FOUR local artists are displaying their works together in an exhibition called Explanations in the Courthouse Gallery’s Red Couch Space in Ennistymon.
The exhibition by Sinéad O’Connell, Diane Reid, Zania Koppe and Sarah Comerford was officially opened by Noel Crowley last Saturday.
A spokeswoman for Explanations said that the exhibition comes from the difficulties that arise from putting forward something personal and then feeling the need to back up or explain its purpose, to clarify the idea behind it.
Sinead is currently living in Clare and works from her studio at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon. She studied ceramics at GMIT and has since been working with porcelain. With her bowls and wall pieces, she aims to tell a story or capture a nostalgic moment.
Sarah is from Kinvara. She obtained her BA in fashion design at NCAD in 2004. She has been travelling and working around Europe, South-East Asia, Australia and South America, while capturing everyday life in interesting ways through photography.
Diane is a ceramic artist living and working in Kinvara. She studied ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design and completed her BA at GMIT. Her current work is focused on the doll and its significance throughout history as children’s toys, decorative figurines and religious icons.
Zania is an Irish-born, Australian artist now living in Galway. She spent eight years living in Berlin and while there was assistant coordinator for ArdBia Berlin, a pilot artist-in-residence project for Irish artists. Since returning to Ireland in 2008, she has been developing her own design praxis. Her work incorporates narrative and is strongly influenced by Eastern European fairy tales, her own experience of cultural parallels and ideas of belonging. This is her first exhibition.
The exhibition runs from Tuesdays to Saturdays, between noon and 5pm in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon until September 2.