EXHIBITIONS

 Ross Stewart, Lucy McKenna,  Rachel Burke This exhibition shows the work of three of the contemporary painters working in the Estate Yard. Their styles and approaches differ but the common thread through each artist’s work is the inspiration of the immediate environment. Ross Stewart’s semi abstract paintings are based on landscape studies but organically developed, focusing on the atmosphere and mood of the place rather than the representational form. His highly textured mixed media paintings evoke wide expanses of bog or moor, solitary trees or boulders with vivid intricate details submerged under glazes of earthy colours. Lucy McKenna likes to create small universes that are specific but subjective, containing personal events, memories, people and emotions. These can be good or bad, innocent or sinister. They are ghosts of fables and childhood tales where anything may happen. Rachel Burke works mainly with Acrylic inks on canvas, using dip penns and brushes to build up a layered image of her local surroundings. The subject matter of her work ranges from domestic and landscape scenes from the family farm to woodlands and rural settings. The most everyday objects combined with urgent text and patterns in her paintings aim to project a captured moment in time. Exhibition runs until June 6th.     LEARNING FROM ART Exhibition comprises 36 art works - 2 poems, 1 piece of prose and 3 explanatory panels. Each exhibit has been inspired by a work from the National Gallery’s Collection. Students from both primary and post primary schools in 32 counties used artwork from the National Gallery’s Collection as a catalyst to create work of their own. The resultant exhibition displays the work of Irish young people in their own right. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Tuesday: 2-5.30 Wednesday:10-5.30  Thursday:10-5.30 Friday:10-5.30 Saturday: 12-4

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