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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 …
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