Quoting WB Yeats’ poem The Circus Animals’ Desertion, via James Elkins text on the relationship between painting and alchemy; What Painting Is, this exhibition explores the “materia prima” of painting. This is the idea, in alchemy, of every substance that has a beauty or spiritual significance, being created in squalor and refuse. Elkins finds an equivalence to this in the …
The Gathering Place
We are looking forward to hosting ‘The Gathering Place’ at Mayfield Arts this month, a two day creative programme connecting diverse communities through making, collaborating, constructing and discussing. The workshops are for adults and are free of charge. They will run over two days on Mon 16th and Mon 23rd October, 11-3.30. For more info and to book your place …
‘Oceanicity’ Exhibition by artist Paul McKenna
Still running at Mayfield Arts Gallery is ‘Oceanicity’ A series of paintings by Cork artist Paul McKenna. ‘Oceanicity’ will run until October 13th.
‘Reach for the Stars’ – Cúig exhibiting at CIT Blackrock Observatory
Cúig artists were invited to creatively explore themes of Space this Summer by CIT Blackrock Observatory as part of its ‘Summer of Space’ programme. The outcomes are a series of beautiful detailed drawings which are exhibited at Blackrock Observatory in conjunction with ‘Space Week’ The exhibition was opened by Orla Flynn, CIT on Fri 6th October Cúig Artists Reach for …