Large and small-scale video installations by Shelagh Honan will be exhibited in the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon from this weekend. Aperture – Where The Light Gets In, was opened by Maria Finucane of Limerick School of Art and Design. The exhibition will run until November 12. Shelagh’s body of work is rooted in time, history and place and brought to life through the media of video installation. The show by the Ennis-based artist was conceived especially for the Courthouse Gallery and features visual imagery, as well as the video installations. The inspiration for the exhibition is drawn from a range of contrasting sites, stories, histories and objects that have found their way in to Shelagh’s studio. Places like Ennistymon and Coole Park and their associated narratives are intertwined and woven to create a series of short video pieces that hover between the realms of fact and fiction. In Wood From The Trees, a video from the woodlands in Coole Park is …
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