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​Home to seven professional artist workspaces, state-of-the art
galleries, and an art printmaking facility

 

Ground Floor Gallery | Until Jun 22: Pride and Passion – Farm Portraits - Mary Burke. Livestock,
hills and fields, corrugated roofs, the chrome, steel and glass of milking parlours, tractors, jeeps, trailers, and sheds provide a wealth of material to explore
through painting. Most of our landscape is industrialised.
Forests are managed and don't always consist of native species and much of our landscape,
however scenic, is for food production. In many cases, a field of grass has been chemically treated and reseeded with imported seeds to maximise nutrition. Cattle sometimes wear monitors delivering data digitally to the farmer through an app on a
smart phone. However, this does not necessarily mean that animals have a bad quality of life. The
farmers that Burke has met were passionate about their farms and had a real duty of care for their
animals. In these works, the artist attempts to capture
a slice of life at this pivotal time in the 6000 years of farming in Ireland

 

First Floor Gallery | Art Level 6, Mayo College of Further Education, West port Campus, End of Year
Exhibition - Iryna Bezbodova, Natasha Daly, Orlagh Diskin, Ethan Grady, Olha Haidukova, Constance
Kennedy, Skye King, Saoirse
Mahon, Emma Murray, Colin Ogg, Roger Philbin, Eduard Rusliakov, Dearbhla Ryan, Daria Shaklieina,
Alla Stepova, Krystyna Tapiekhina, Evan Wu. Evening Course: Betty Gannon, Roisin Murray

Ground Floor Gallery | Jun 26-Jul 20: (Preview: Thurs, Jun 26, 6-8 pm) XAOS - Hugh Delap. We live in a time of constant tension, despite claims of progress, we face war, genocide, climate
breakdown, pandemics and concerns with nuclear proliferation,
racism, inequality and
indifference. This exhibition
brings together two bodies of work, XAOS, a series of paintings made in response to the sense of uncertainty in the world today, and Anthropocene, a selection of works on paper and aluminium exploring humans impact on
the natural environment

 

First Floor Gallery | Active
Retirement Westport Painting Group Exhibition - Irene Bourke, Mary Carr, Anne Gannon, Bridget
Gibbons, Maureen Halpin, Breege Harrington, Evelyn Horan, Maureen Moran, Maggie McGing, Marie Ruane

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