Amharcealaín - Visual Art
Ballina Arts Centre
Ballina Civic Offices, Arran Place, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
T: 096 73593
E: ballinaartscentre@gmail.net
W: www.ballinaartscentre.com
Jack B Yeats & the West of Ireland
Though Jack B Yeats was born in London, he spent most of his childhood in Sligo in the care of his maternal grandparents, often travelling around Sligo and Mayo with his grandfather, a wealthy merchant. The young artist must have been captivated by the landscape and the characters he encountered here as throughout his career he returned repeatedly to the memories of his west of Ireland days for inspiration.
In 1905 Yeats was commissioned to illustrate a series of articles on ‘Life in the Congested Districts of Galway and Mayo’, by John Millington Synge, for the Guardian newspaper. Together Yeats and Synge spent several weeks touring the depressed regions. It was a trip that was to have a deep and lasting impact on the artist and shortly afterwards he began to concentrate solely on Irish subject matter.
It was in no small way due to his Sligo childhood and The Guardian commission that Jack developed a particular interest in the people and rituals of everyday life, painting street sellers, sailors, funerals, travelling fairs, circuses and the races.
Jack B Yeats & the West of Ireland, is an exhibition of the artist’s works from Sligo and Mayo, and features watercolours and oils from throughout his career.
This exhibition is drawn from The Niland Collection and is presented in association with The Model, home of The Niland Collection.
Free admission. All are welcome to attend, exhibition runs until 27th February.
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
W: www.thelinenhall.com
Friday 5th- Friday 26th February
Private Collections - Public View
An exhibition representing works from private collections by some of Ireland’s foremost visual artists, “from Shinnors’ kites to McSweeney’s bog pools, and everything in between”. A selection from private collections by Linenhall Chairman Eamon Smith.
Adm.: free
ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,
T: 097 81079
Damian McGee Exhibition 4th February – Monday 1st March
Damian Magee is a graduate from the University of Ulster Belfast. He has enjoyed several solo exhibitions throughout Ireland along with numerous selected group exhibitions. Damian is the recipient of various awards and commissions and is included in numerous public collections.
The work Damian is displaying is based on a residency held at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, in late 2008. Between land and water, past and present, lost and found, demarcation and ownership, excavation and erosion; a body of diverse work emerged that embraced the arbitrary, the momentary, and the monumental, in locating human presence within this physically uncompromising and historically rich geological, agricultural and archaeological topography.
Mulranny Park Hotel
Shane Cannon Exhibition
John.F.Deane will be opening an exhibition of work by visual artist Shane Cannon’s work in the Mulranny Park Hotel on Saturday 6th of February at 8pm. The Exhibition will run for two weeks.
For more info join Shane Cannon on www.facebook.com , see www.shanecannon.ie , call Shane on 086 2288566 or visit the Western Light Art Gallery in Keel Achill Co. Mayo.