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Atlantic Crossing: Aug 20 to Sept 15

Atlantic Crossing: Cill Rialaig Benefit
Irish & American Artists benefit Cill Rialaig: with work by Glenn Fitzgerald, Brian Harte, Judy Hamilton, Micheal Madigan, and Shirley Mossman Nisbet

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 22, 2004, 3:00 – 5:30 pm. The guests of honour will be Cill Rialaig founder Noelle Campbell-Sharp and U.S. Ambassador James Kenny.

Cill Rialaig is a small pre-famine era village set high on a cliff at the very end of the Kerry peninsula that has been converted into an extraordinary not-for-profit retreat for artists, writers and composers. Artists come here from around the world and across Ireland to work uninterrupted in this beautiful and remote area. It is this wellspring of creativity, this source of inspiration, and the work that springs from it that this exhibition celebrates. Proceeds from this exhibition are being donated to Cill Rialaig by the artists and the Catherine Hammond Gallery.

Exhibition artists represent the wide mix who visit Cill Rialaig. Glenn Fitzgerald and David Harte are relatively recent graduates of the Crawford School of Art and Design whose work reflects a precocious maturity. Judy Hamilton is a mid-career artist whose vibrant seascapes are sought after by collectors. Micheal Madigan is a mid-career Irish American artist who finds his inspiration in his forefathers? landscape and culture. Shirley Mossman Nisbet is an established Massachusetts landscape artist who works across several media.

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Jacqueline Stanley: June 26 to July 22

Jacqueline Stanley : Along the Margins

Opening Reception: Saturday June 26, 2004, 3:00 – 5:30 pm

Opened by: Peter Murray, Curator, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery

This important solo show features paintings and works on paper depicting different aspects of West Cork and Kerry. Stanley captures the essentail in a way that refocuses our own contemplations of this island’s uniquely beautiful margin.

According to Stanley, “I have found that where mountains meet wetlands, cliffs and shoreline edge the ocean, and flat open spaces change to more textured terrain, these are where my interests lie. These divisions, at the edges and margins, beginnings and endings, are repeated themes.” Her ability to render the vibrant color of the landscape brings out, as she says, “the chrome yellow of the gorse, crimson fushsia, vivid orange montbretia, which leap out of the huge vocabulary of green.” She reminds us how rich the colours, textures and patterns in in the landscape around us truly are.

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Leonard Sheil: May 28 to June 23

Leonard Sheil: Paintings & Drawings 1996 – 2004

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 2004, 3:00 – 5:30 pm

An exhibit of more than two dozen works by Dublin-born artist, Leonard Sheil, features mixed-media paintings inspired by his travels and the landscape at home in the Wicklow mountains. Sheil’s blend of paint and non-paint materials is spontaneous but not anarchic, often with rich, gritty texture. What the works have in common, whether huge canvases with heroic leanings or small intimate panels, are ceaselessly varied surfaces on which Sheil deploys a variety of techniques and medai. Colour builds upon colour, sometimes dynamically liquid, pooling, dripping, flowing or splashing. The work is intense and lush without being overly romantic. It shows a mature depth of conviction of the mysterious world below the surface.

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