Katherine Boucher Beug, People
16 November – 22December 2024
Katherine, originally from Princeton, New Jersey, has worked and taught in West Cork since 1971. Known for her draughtsmanship, she draws every day, consistently experimenting with writing, collage and painting. She showed her 'internal' journals as part of her exhibition, alongside paintings, valuing ‘the raw’ at least as much as ‘the cooked’. See more . . .
In Collaboration with Con Kelleher
28 September – 3 November 2024
A wide-ranging mixed show featuring photographs, etchings, paintings and ceramics by Regine Bartsch, Cormac Boydell, Lucy & Robert Carter, Bernadette Cotter, Marie Coveney, Debbie Godsell, Tim Goulding, Carol Hodder, Con Kelleher, Denis O’Reardon, Robert Rasmussen, Jenny Richardson, Mary G Sheehan and Charles Tyrrell. See more . . .
17 August – 22 September 2024
Gerda Teljeur:
Crosscurrents
Gerda's large-scale, abstract ink drawings mix concentrated energy with a profound sense of the importance of each mark. While adhering uncompromisingly to an abstract form of expression she manages to convey a sense of the connections between humanity, the earth and the spaces around us. See more . . .
29 June – 28 July 2024
Lucy & Robert Carter:
Screenprints
The owners of the gallery exhibited their own series of screenprints plus works editioned with artists who have exhibited with us, including Charles Tyrrell, Rachel Parry, Cormac Boydell, Aisling Roche, Tim Goulding and Lisa Fingleton. See more . . .
Katherine Boucher Beug,Evening Foursome, acrylic on BFK Reeves paper, 56.5 x 46 cm
Curated by Louise O'Donnell, this impromptu pop-up show drew together works from our own stockroom and that of Louise's Tralee-based Wellspring Gallery. Artists included: Paul Bokslag, Katherine Boucher Beug,Cormac Boydell, Kate Buckley, Michael Flaherty, Tim Goulding, Karen Hendy, Con Kelleher, Maria Levigne, Jock Nichol, Noël O’Callaghan and Mary G Sheehan. See more . . .
Tim Goulding: Poetry, Prints & Paintings
Tim Goulding, a member of Aosdána, has lived and worked on the Beara peninsula since 1969. He has exhibited extensively with solo and group shows in Ireland, England, Portugal and the USA. 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 remains 'see and play'. This retrospective exhibition brought together exquisite folios of prints combining text and image with paintings, all displaying Tim's sense of rhythm, colour and sensibility.
The show was introduced by Joe Thoma and a video recording of the opening conversation can be found here:
https://youtu.be/ukueaYQrVWM
16 March – 21 April 2024
Alan Raggett – Be Good if You Can –
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’. See more . . .
The exhibition was introduced by auctioneer John de Vere White; a recording of their conversation can be seen here: https://youtu.be/TmcHyubt9Rc
Poster image by Alan Raggett
18 January – 24 February 2024
Le Salon Du Kerry, curated by Dermot Browne in collaboration with Grilse Gallery.
The exhibition at Firkin Crane Visual in Cork city featured Darragh Kinch, Silke Michels, Dorota Borowa, Úna Ni Shé, Rochelle Lucey, Deirdre McKenna, Zoe Ui Fhaolain Green, Jacqueline O'Driscoll, Ciara O'Connor, Cathy Giles, Karen Hendy, Alan Raggett and Niall Naessens. The show also included screenprints by Lucy & Robert Carter of works by Charles Tyrrell, Cormac Boydell, Rachel Parry, Aisling Roche and Lisa Fingleton.
25 November – 24 December 2023
Geraldine O’Reilly, Mary O'Donnell and Na Cailleacha:
Heroines
‘Unlegendary Heroes’ is a folio of ten prints by Geraldine O’Reilly and ten poems by Mary O’Donnell. It is accompanied by Na Cailleacha’s Ballinglen print portfolio. Na Cailleacha – 'wise women' or 'witches' – is a collective of eight women dedicated to exploring collaborative practice. The collective comprises visual artists Helen Comerford, Barbara Freeman, Patricia Hurl, Rachel Parry, Therry Rudin and Gerda Teljeur; jazz composer and musician Carole Nelson; and curator and art-writer Catherine Marshall. See more . . .
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
23 September – 22 October 2023
Niall Naessens:
Ar Imeall an Iontais/The Edge of Marvellous
Introduced by Charles Tyrrell: see
https://youtu.be/10Rne69fUS4
Niall's exhibition comprised a body of recent etchings, monoprint drawings and digital drawings depicting remote and extreme places. The landscape imagery, extracted mostly from the topography of West Kerry, is embellished with memory, dreams and invention. The human figure, often an artist, occasionally appears bidding us to share their outlook.
Developing a brand of 21st-century Irish Romanticism, Naessens inquires into his emotional
connection with the world he lives in. With colour and motif he contrives to portray this world in
fantastic compositions, each one an episode of a greater narrative. In an adventurous collaboration with Stephen O'Connell and Alexis Bowman of Fermoyle Pottery the show included ceramic landscape pieces.
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19 August – 17 September 2023
Aisling Roche:
Tides, new work and ceramics
Swimming and snorkelling have inspired Aisling since childhood. This exhibition of work offered us perceptions of memory and remote dreams of the sea. Ceramic sculptures, relief panels and painted maps interrogated our relationship with the coastline, invoking mythology and questioning ecology. The exhibition represented memories, dreams and that other underwater world, the riches that lie beneath. Personal narratives, mythologies, artefacts, treasures and sea life known and unknown. See more . . .
The show was introduced by Ann Davoren, Director of Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, as seen in this crafted video by Donagh Long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTfRXVsXOhc
Karen Hendy, Cre I, natural ground pigments, Valentia slate dust,
Derrynane oak gall ink, ground bog peat and bog water on Fabriano paper
8 July – 13 August 2023
Land, a mixed summer show
Artists including Katherine Boucher Beug, Edwina Bracken, Audrey Fleming, Karen Hendy, Con Kelleher, Susan Montgomery, Noël O’Callaghan, Danny Osborne, Aisling Roche and Mary G Sheehan. Opened by poet Paddy Bushe whose crafted and inspiring introduction added to everyone’s appreciation of the exhibition: even some artists admitted to an enhanced perception of their own work following his interpretation.
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3 June – 2 July 2023
Paul Bokslag, Paper Trails
Opened during Killorglin’s K-Fest 2023 (2–5 June), we exhibited Paul's large-scale paper cuts and acrylic paintings on canvas. The opening view at noon was introduced by Lisa Fingleton, and Paul gave an illustrated talk later that afternoon.
Paul is a visual artist and designer from the Netherlands, based in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. He works across a range of media, from drawing, painting, printmaking, papercutting and photography to sculpture and site specific installations. Paul has exhibited around Ireland and the Netherlands and created large murals, room-filling tape drawings and multi-story string sculptures and paper cut installations in Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; VISUAL, Carlow; Facebook offices, Ballsbridge; National Design & Craft Gallery and County Hall, Kilkenny. Paul is on the Butler Gallery artists panel, he is an associate artist with Helium Arts and regularly works with Workhouse Union.
Rachel Parry, detail from Smell, a drawing from 'Cosmic Oceans',
graphite and pastel pencils on rice paper, 73 x 153 cm, 2016
1 April – 7 May 2023
Rachel Parry & Cormac Boydell: Drawings on paper and ceramics
Rachel Parry and Cormac Boydell have been making art of a very high order for decades. Rachel is primarily known for her intricate and haunting assemblages of 'nature's debris’; Cormac for his unique ceramics which are often a development from his notebook sketches.
Rachel showed a series of large-scale drawings of the human senses inspired by a British Museum exhibition 'Garden and Cosmos’ which featured the Indian
Nath Charit folio and incorporating 19th-century European medical diagrams. Cormac a selection of his many travel notebooks to browse through, some framed drawings, and black-on-black drawings on ceramics.
The show was opened by Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, former footballer, manager and supporter of the arts.
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Niall Naessens,
Artist Observing Sunrise,
etching, 33 x 33 cm
3–24 December 2022
Winter Group Show, 20 Irish Artists
20 established and emerging Irish artists working in a wide variety of media including embroidery, prints, drawings, painting, photography and sculpture: Mike Ahern, Miriam Barry, Regine Bartsch, Paul Bokslag, Cormac Boydell, Edwina Bracken, Fermoyle Pottery, Debbie Godsell, Patrick Groneman, Con Kelleher, Denis Kelly, Rochelle Lucey, Sean McCarthy, Ava McKenna, Deidre McKenna, Niall Naessens, Ciara O’Connor, Alan Raggett, Eddie Ryan and Charles Tyrrell.
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7 October–27 November 2022
Debbie Godsell: Residues
Residues was an overview of the work produced by Debbie Godsell over the past two years. Formally trained as printmaker, her work is primarily lens-based and has evolved to produce outcomes both in two dimensional works and sculptural forms. Interrogating and re-evaluating themes of identity and belonging are the motivational forces underpinning each work. Godsell’s presentation of Iconic images including turf reeks, farm gates, and harvest threshing consider a highly charged post-colonial relationship with the land. Residues considers the complex transitioning from traditional rural Ireland to a country that belongs in a contemporary global world.
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2 August–2 October 2022
Lucy & Robert Carter: Silk Shapes
The colours, forms and the heraldry of racing jockeys' silks inspired a series of eight silkscreen prints. The chosen subjects, all Irish horses, have been multiple winners of the Grand National or the Cheltenham Gold Cup, often with fascinating back-stories of equine bravery or eccentric owners.
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20 May–17 July 2022
Charles Tyrrell, Between the Lines, 100 drawings, 2002–2022
Charlie has lived and worked in Allihies on the Beara peninsula since 1984. Originally from Meath, he studied art at the National College of Art and Design, graduating in 1974. Since then his work has been exclusively concerned with abstraction. He has exhibited extensively in Ireland and abroad and has represented Ireland in international exhibitions on a number of occasions. His work is represented in major national collections including, IMMA, The Crawford Gallery and The Hugh Lane Gallery. Charles is an associate member of The Royal Hibernian Academy and a member of Aosdána. He is represented by Taylor Galleries, Dublin. See more . . .