Selma returns to her native city with exhibition of paintings and sculpture
A exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Galway artist Selma McCormack will be opened on Thursday next, October 16, at the Norman Villa Gallery in Lower Salthill.
The opening will be performed by John Behan and the exhibition will run until November 2.
Selma McCormack, née Conboy, originally from Newcastle in Galway City, is now based in Dublin but has an ongoing attachment to her native city and the west.
Having studied painting and sculpture in the National College of Art and Design, she has been exhibiting since the early 1980s, her work is represented in many private and public collections.
This is her first solo exhibition in Galway for a number of years and she is very excited to be able to show this body of work titled ‘Now and Then, A Look Back’ to both those familiar with her work and those coming to it for the first time.
As the title suggest this exhibition will include recent works, mostly paintings in acrylics and mixed media as well as a selection of works in bronze and ceramic. Despite working across a wide variety of media in her twenty five year career, a vibrancy and vitality is in evidence in every piece be it clay, bronze or paint.
The paintings demonstrate the artist's ability for lyrical abstraction and reflect her love of poetry while the bronze works are more figurative and are full of motion, energy and drama.
The collection also features a selection of Selma's iconic ceramic pieces.
■ Norman Villa Gallery, 86 Lower Salthill, is open Wednesday to Saturday, 12 to 6pm.