“Heir Island had no choice but to become home,” shares painter and printmaker Christine Thery with Mary O’Brien, recalling when she first set foot on the small island off West Cork. It was to be another five years after sailing to the Caribbean and US before Christine and her husband […]
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From August 6 – 18 at Blue House Gallery in Schull, Stephen Lawlor ‘A Liminal State’; prints, paintings and sculpture comes with the publication by Gandon of a substantial book on his work with text by, amongst others, John Banville and Theo Dorgan. One thinks of liminality as the state, […]
Likened to ‘painting with yarn’, punch needle is a traditional form of rug making, one where you create continuous loops of wool by punching your needle in and out of a special fabric. Certified Oxford Punch Needle Instructor, artist and environmental scientist Michelle O’Driscoll is the owner of Wild […]
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre hosts ‘La Place des Grands Abysses’, an exhibition of work by Stephen Brandes that runs from now until September 4. A superlative draughtsman who has exhibited internationally, Stephen Brandes explores the interplay of word and visual language as a vehicle for storytelling with particular reference to […]
The new Michael Collins mural in Clonakilty, titled ‘Paths to Freedom’, is not only a colourful nod to the birth of the Irish Free State, but also a work which enfolds West Cork into Ireland’s street art revolution. The stencilled mural is today’s equivalent of the medieval fresco; the level […]
Depending on what he’s working on at the time, Paddy McCormack will describe his occupation when asked as either artist or artisan. Working with metal, he uses a welding technique that is not widely practiced today. “I mostly braze my materials, copper and steel, using oxy/acetylene and silicon bronze rods,” […]