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North Clare artist, Tina O’Connell, has been turning heads in the art world this year, winning a number of awards and having a piece of sculpture accepted into the permanent collection at the Limerick City Gallery. Tina, who took up art just 12 years ago, has had a meteoric rise in recent years, first completing FETAC level 5 and 6 courses in Ennistymon before finishing her degree this year at the Limerick School of Art and Design. Indeed, on the back of some of the sculptures she has completed over the past seven months, Tina currently has an exhibition running in Limerick City Gallery. The Lisdoonvarna single mother has worked hard for her success, putting in long hours this winter to perfect her craft. “I focussed on getting my thesis done before Christmas. I really knuckled down and said that, come January, I would get stuck into studio work,” she said “I ended up carving a lot from home in …

Clare artists Óscar Mascareñas and Elaine Tucker have found a spiritual home in Ballycuggaran. The Sixmilebridge based artists have made the woods their second home, and have built up a connection to the wildlife and plant life of the locality. That unique relationship will be the subject of a new exhibition hosted by both artists at Coach House in the People’s Museum of Limerick later this month. Entitled Transposition, the exhibition is a visual love letter to Ballycuggaran, its striking trees and beautiful animals. “Elaine and myself used to spend virtually every weekend travelling to different parts of the country taking photographs. We drove to Ballycuggaran and just fell in love with the place and started going there every weekend,” said Óscar. “We discovered the woods, which aren’t that well known, and we started exploring them and taking pictures of the flora there, there are a lot of very beautiful trees. It is a special place, both the woods and …

The opportunity to indulge in a little local nostalgia, to learn about threatened wildlife species recorded on what was a derelict manufacturing site for many years and to find out how to creatively cook organic products can all be savoured by festival goers of Scariff Harbour Festival. They are tasty treats from a packed programme of events over the August Bank Holiday week-end. Old Photos East Clare is an online platform of people and place going back to the late 1800s, reflecting the day to day life of Scariff and surrounding parishes from O’Callaghan’s Mills to Tulla, back to Mountshannon and further afield. It is a treasure trove of memories and social history, founded and developed by local photographer, Marie O’Leary. During the Scariff Harbour Festival a representative selection from 8,000 photographs accessible online will form a slide show presentation. It can be viewed on loop between 12 noon and 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday of the festival in …

The Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Scariff Library Gallery is delighted to present “Vial” an exhibition of art by Marie Connole exploring Ireland’s Revolutionary Years. Since 2021, the Clare artist has been commissioned under the Decade of Centenaries Programme to create artworks highlighting events in Ireland, and particularly Clare, from 1913 to 1923. This latest exhibition brings together two recent projects completed by the North Clare artist, the Irrepressible Women of Clare Series, first exhibited in 2021, and the An Alchemy of the Civil War, first shown in 2022. Both of these exhibitions were developed from extensive research and a range of historical sources by the artist. The five portraits of ‘Irrepressible Women of Clare’ focuses on the lives of diverse women living in the county to understand the effects of Ireland’s War of Independence. The women are Georgina Frost, Kathleen Talty, Peg Barrett, Kathleen Griffin and Lady Beatrice Hare O’Brien. ‘An Alchemy of the Civil War’ is a …

ART lovers are able to enjoy a brand new exhibition of work by Clare artist Cathal Butler from anywhere in the world. Clare Arts Office, in conjunction with the Cultúrlann Sweeney Gallery, have launched Cathal’s exhibition ‘Scenes from West Clare’ which will run at the Kilkee gallery until September 23. The pictures for the Kilkee exhibition are all of iconic sites and scenes in County Clare, painted in oils. However, you don’t have to head to West Clare to see the works with Cathal embracing multimedia through a virtual tour of the exhibition available online at: https://clarearts.ie/events/scenes-from-west-clare/ Cathal Butler is registered as a professional member with Visual Artists Ireland, working from EASI Art Studios in Ennis, and mainly paints landscapes in oils, completing several collections for hotels around the country. Along with the pictures on sale, there is also an opportunity to buy prints of the pictures, both framed and unframed, with limited editions of each image also available.

LOCAL artist  Dympna Bonfield will launch a new exhibition of her work this September in glór. The exhibition, titled Reflections will run upstairs in glór gallery until Saturday, October 1. The exhibition comprises 25 vibrant paintings inspired by the unique landscape of Clare and will be launched on Thursday, September 1 at 6.30pm by Joe Lynch. Dympna exhibits work both nationally and internationally. After spending many years living and working in Dublin she returned west, to her native County Clare. Much of her recent work can be seen to reflect this move, and draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape resulting in a new found freedom of expression that reflects the essential character and culture of the west of Ireland. This exhibition takes us on a wonderful, winding road of seashores, surf and sea-swells, of soft bog cotton, of furze, of stony Burren, of childhood, of sand, of home, of friends, of solitude. From an early age Dympna Bonfield was interested …

CLARE Haven Services are currently hosting a multimedia exhibiton entitled Hidden Truths: Behind Closed Doors, which explores the experience and themes of domestic abuse in Clare. The exhibition aims to draw peoples attention to the reality of domestic abuse in a novel and thought provoking way. It is on at their premises at Abbey Lodge on the road between Ennis and Clarecastle until December 10, and is part of the organisation’s 16 Days of Action to Prevent Violence Against Women calendar of events. For the exhibition a number of rooms have been transformed, with thought provoking pieces installed which bring home the reality of domestic abuse for women and children. Dr Siobhán O’Connor is Manager of services at Clare Haven and speaking about the exhibition at its launch last Wednesday, she said, “This all comes out of a thought process I had about two years ago when I saw the space we had here and thought about how best to …

ENNISTYMON School of Art students are to present an end of year exhibition with a difference due to the Covid-19 restrictions. The school, which is run through Limerick Clare ETB from mid-September until May, offers QQI awarded PLC courses in level 5 and 6. The current students were looking forward to the annual exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon, which will launch on this Friday, May 8, but the Coronavirus put paid to that and have had to think of alternative arrangements. PLC tutor Rachel Gleasure said they are now in the final process of mounting an online exhibition and hoping to reach wider audiences through social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. “We offer students a chance to improve their artistic skills and the course caters for all levels from beginners to advanced. Learners can learn new skills such as painting, sculpture and ceramics and it’s also an employment-oriented programme, which prepares students for degree courses in …