An ongoing series of audio & visual footnotes

all available on youtube.com/@grilsegallery732

Katherine Boucher Beug: People

16 November – 21 December 2024

Katherine has been drawing and teaching in West Cork since 1971. She draws every day, consistently experimenting while mixing writing, collage and painting. She shows her 'interior' journals as part of her exhibitions, 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 private collections in Ireland, the UK, Germany and America. The exhibition's introduction with Gemma Tipton can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ynXr5M9skNQ

Poetry Cocoon:  Emer Fallon, Nicholas McLachlan, Simon Ó Faoláin, Maggie Breen 

with filmmaker John Kennedy, plus Mick Jones

Culture Night, 20 September 2024

West Kerry poets in a quiet corner / Éist le filí dhuibhneacha i gcúinne ciúin

Poetry on headphones / Filíocht ar chluasáin

Poetry films / Scannáin filíochta

Poetry fine-art prints / Clóanna filíochta

The poetry readings can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/SpyFnVpG9fE

Gerda Teljeur: Crosscurrents

17 August – 22 September 2024

Gerda's large-scale, abstract ink drawings mix concentrated energy with a profound sense of the importance of each mark. Her work is deeply meditative, adhering uncompromisingly to an abstract form of expression yet conveying a sense of the connections between humanity, the earth and the spaces around us. A video of the introduction by Catherine Marshall can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/vRBhNjkKjGs

Tim Goulding: Poetry, Prints & Paintings

4 May – 9 June 2024

Tim works in series, often spending three or four years on one theme. These series can be radically different in both style and content but are always a response to his visual and emotional lives: his modus operandi , 'see and play'; a combination of rhythm, colour and sensibility. A video recording of the opening talk can be found here: https://youtu.be/ukueaYQrVWM

Alan Raggett  – Be Good if You Can –

16 March – 21 April 2024
Derived from vintage postcards sent from Kerry worldwide, Alan says of this series of oil paintings, 'about Kerry, made in Kerry and shown in Kerry’. The exhibition was introduced by auctioneer John de Vere White; a recording of their conversation can be seen here: https://youtu.be/TmcHyubt9Rc

Geraldine O’Reilly, Mary O'Donnell and Na Cailleacha: Heroines

25 November – 24 December 2023

Mary was scheduled to introduce the exhibition but, due to illness, was unable to. In her stead Geraldine O'Reilly and Catherine Marshall talked of their own collaborative projects, and Lisa Fingleton read Mary's poem, 'Unlegendary Heroes'. The opening was a joyous and warm celebration of creative, experienced and insightful women. See https://youtu.be/XN11CXPT_JU

Niall Naessens: Ar Imeall an Iontais/The Edge of Marvellous

23 September – 22 October 2023
Introduced and appreciated by Charles Tyrrell: see https://youtu.be/10Rne69fUS4

Land: 10 Irish artists

8 July – 13 August 2023

Poet Paddy Bushe delivered a crafted and inspiring interpretation of the exhibition: some of the artists admitted to an enhanced perception of their own work. Artists included Katherine Boucher Beug, Edwina Bracken, Audrey Fleming, Karen Hendy, Con Kelleher, Susan Montgomery, Noël O’Callaghan, Danny Osborne, Aisling Roche and Mary G Sheehan. Recorded by Donagh Long, Paddy's introduction can be heard here:

https://youtu.be/-poXMMHdXn4 

His observations on the work of Aisling Roche:

https://youtu.be/n2DNqkMzJSQ

on the work of Con Kelleher:

https://youtu.be/_UAzw8Q_yBM

on the work of Karen Hendy:

https://youtu.be/Qh_dbi2H_lk

on the work of Audrey Fleming:

https://youtu.be/U_CGO6LcAUc

on the paintings of Mary G Sheehan:

https://youtu.be/9aIYNsMR25c

on those by Edwina Bracken:

https://youtu.be/Li0gZQkUxdg

and of other individual artists:

https://spaintowerstudios.com/grilse-gallery.html Password 'Land'.