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Until Nov 8: Cuimhniodh (remembered) David Lilburn (1950–2021) and Jim Savage (1950–2019) - Works by two highly respected artists who made a significant contribution to the Irish and Limerick art scenes. Both artists were widely admired for their
commitment to drawing as a primary artistic practice and for their advocacy of its central role in art making, particularly in relation to printmaking. The exhibition highlights their practices as artists, collaborators, publishers, and curators, bringing together works across drawing, printmaking, and painting. Both were widely admired
for their commitment to drawing as a primary artistic practice and its central role in artmaking, particularly in relation to printmaking. Working primarily through drawing and printmaking, Lilburn explored ideas of memory, identity, and place. Savage is known for his large-scale and detailed drawings of landscapes. Lilburn and Savage also worked together through Occasional
Press, which they founded to publish art and poetry projects. Their collaborations included the Connemara Project with Ballynahinch Castle, where visual artists and poets were invited to respond to the wild Atlantic
landscape. Collaborators associated with these projects
included Dorothy Cross, Donald Teskey, Tony Curtis, Joe Wilson, Colm Tóibín, and Mick O’Dea

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