Visual arts programme for Terryglass Festival
An exciting visual arts programme has been announced for the Terryglass Arts Festival, which takes place from Wednesday August 16 to Sunday August 20.
Jenny Fox has been named as the first-ever Artist in Residence for the festival, which celebrates its 19th anniversary this year.
She will create for the festival an installation entitled ‘The Places In Between’, based on two interlinked areas: an exhibition, containing finished paintings; and a re-creation of her studio.
The exhibition takes place in the Old Church from 11am to 5pm daily.
Damer House Gallery, in collaboration with Terryglass Arts Festival, presents Homeland- a selection of short films that document life and livelihoods in Ireland’s towns and villages. The videos and films, all made between 2014 and 2016, are played on a loop and include professional, fiction and non-fiction, sound and silent material. The Homeland video selection is dedicated exclusively to video, art and film and will attract all those interested in the culture and history of Ireland.
Homeland takes place in Terryglass National School 11am to 5pm daily.
Tipperary-based Lynn Kirkham will host two drop-in workshops on Friday August 18 and Saturday August 19 to create artworks based on plant life. Plants, flowers and fluorescent paint will be installed onto large-scale canvases to create beautiful nature images that will be lit with back lights at night throughout the village for a magical effect.
The artworks will be made during the festival with participation from garden enthusiasts, residents and visitors to the village in making the art, from the age of 5 and up.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.