Grilse Gallery
Screenprint studio & artist-run gallery in
Killorglin, Kerry
Winter opening hours: Wed–Sat 12–5pm, Sundays & other times by appointment
087 604 7559 / either@grilse.ie
Free entry to all & group visits welcome
Closed Thursday 21 November
Katherine Boucher Beug, People
16 November – 21 December 2024
Katherine, originally from Princeton, New Jersey, has been working and teaching in West Cork since 1971. Known for her draughtsmanship, she draws every day, consistently experimenting with writing, collage and painting. She shows her 'internal' journals as part of her exhibitions, alongside paintings, valuing ‘the raw’ at least as much as ‘the cooked’.
Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery, the Crawford, the Arts Council, the Glucksman, in many private collections in Ireland, UK, Germany and America.
Gemma Tipton, who introduced the show, says in her introduction to Katherine's Flowers: the Book (2021): ‘Looking at the flower paintings and drawings is very much like a conversation with the artist herself. You find unexpected ideas, sudden powerful thoughts, a confluence of delicacy and strength. You come away seeing the world in a way that is exciting and new. A window has been opened, and you wonder why you never saw that view before.’
A video of the opening remarks can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ynXr5M9skNQ
The exhibition provides a platform for the launch of Katherine’s latest book
People which offers a close look at the creative process through the lens of her images of faces and people. Informed by her experience of teaching since the early ’70s, the book contains over sixty pages of sketchbook drawings, a full-colour section on paintings, an interview with Gemma Tipton, and text from the artist describing her working process.
On offer, all proceeds to MSF
GAZA EMERGENCY—
Lisa Fingleton, Speaking peace while selling arms, now half price: €95
100% of proceeds of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza and their West Bank Emergency Regional Fund. See Shop for details . . .
Available as one-, two- or three-colour screenprint. Edition of 18 printed by Grilse Gallery, 35 x 26 cm on watermarked 285 gsm Fabriano with deckled edge at foot.
The print is a collaboration between Lisa Fingleton and screenprinters Lucy & Robert Carter.
'It is so distressing to see the levels of violence and aggression in the world. It is particularly shocking to witness the hypocrisy of those who advocate for peace on one hand while making billions from the sale of arms and weapons on the other. We hope that art can be a catalyst for change and advocate for the peaceful transformations that the world needs.'
Lisa Fingleton is an artist, writer and grower who has spent over twenty years cultivating deep-rooted connections between art, food, nature and peace. She is the embedded artist with the Creative Climate Action Project Brilliant Ballybunion and is also the Kerry Visual Artist in Residence with Kerry County Council Arts Office. Her studio is based at The Barna Way, an organic farm, woodland and wildlife sanctuary near Ballybunion. Her work is held in the OPW and other national collections.
Grilse Gallery is an artist-run space exhibiting a changing programme of contemporary visual art in Killorglin, Co. Kerry. The gallery was established in Spring 2022 by printmakers Lucy and Robert Carter, since when we have exhibited over 50 artists either in solo or group shows. Alongside the programme of exhibitions we screenprint our own work and edition works by invited artists.