Word to the wise: go to X-PO in Kilnaboy

Wise Ways, an exhibition of artwork by students of Kilnaboy National School and visitors to the X-PO community and arts project goes on display at the centre from Sunday.
The exhibition consists of 48 relief wall-mounted works in fired red clay, accompanied by stories by visitors to the X-PO Kilnaboy and students at the Kilnaboy National School.
“Focusing on the theme of ‘wise ways’, the works were created during workshops with Dublin artist Terry O’Farrell in 2009 and 2010. The original work from Raheen Community Hospital day centre was exhibited at X-PO last year and this exhibition shows work made in Kilnaboy in response to the same theme,” a spokeswoman for the exhibition said.
“The exhibition documents the extraordinary wealth of knowledge from the older generation of the Burren either directly from that generation or passed on to their grandchildren. It offers the public an opportunity to learn from their wisdom, how to live more respectfully towards the environment, with a greater sense of community and sharing,” they added.
“Each small work in clay is accompanied by text which is taken verbatim from the makers involved. It forms a wonderful and illuminating document of the wisdom of the past lives of people from rural County Clare. As a result of these workshops in Kilnaboy the participants will be adding to the Wise Ways collection and the stories will take on a new life through the event,” the spokesperson concluded.
The exhibition will be opened by Catherine Marshall, currently on secondment from the Irish Museum of Modern Art and joint editor of Vol V Royal Irish Academy Irish Art and Architecture, who has a long association with the Inniscealtrá Festival in East Clare.
The exhibition will run from April 18 to May 1, and opening hours are Thursday, 2-5pm; Saturday, 2-5pm; and Sunday, 2-5pm.