Cathy's Art Diary

Exhibition of works in progress at Limerick City Art Gallery by Felicity Clear, Anita Groener, Pamela Dunne and the School of Architecture in the University of Limerick (SAUL). The idea was that the works would develop during the course of the exhibition and some of them would be destroyed at the end. I must admit nothing has stuck with me from this exhibition except a wall of digital maps and info graphics. The other works just didn’t impinge. Maybe they needed to develop a bit more!

Interesting exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art which commission 14 artists from around the city to respond to a work of their choice in the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland. On the whole the original self-portraits came across as more interesting than the responses for example Robert Ballagh’s picture realistic picture showing himself moles and all or Vera Klute’s picture of herself in a stripped jumper with an electric switch. However some of the responses were lovely particularly Anne Maire Morrin’s “Cradle to Cradle” which was a set of hanging bells but shaped as little dresses. Really beautiful.