ART AROUND SHORELINES
Shorelines Art Exhibition
3rd September to 16th September from 09.30AM to 5.00PM daily (official opening at 5.00PM on 2nd September)
​The Gallery at the Irish Workhouse Centre

Admission: Free
In this marvellous space, galleries display work from painters, photographers, sculptors and other
artists who work in three dimensions. Most of the work is for sale and because our commission is
modest, you will find high quality work at great prices.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Vincent Devine
Vincent paints in a variety of media and new work by him always stirs a great deal of interest. With endorsements from the likes of Alanis Morissette and J.K Rowling, he has had work commissioned by Tyra Banks, Roisin Murphy and Iggy Azalea.

​His new work seeks to paint the unpaintable."I want to paint something you cannot hold in the palm of your hand or see with the naked eye"

​www.vincentdevine.com
Seumas MacFarlane
Seumas paints on box canvas, board, or primed ply with oils, sometimes using an acrylic base and works with a palette knife alone or knife and brush combined.

​He has a Diploma in Graphic Design for Print and has exhibited at the Iona House Gallery in Oxfordshire, the Quay Arts Gallery in Ballina, Co Tipperary and the Hunt Museum, Limerick. 

www.seumasmacfarlaneart.ie

www.instagram.com/seumas_macfarlane_art
Benny Williams
Having studied Fine Art at GMIT, graduating with a Masters, Benny Williams works principally in oil on canvas and works from life, with ambitious scale and a determination to see what lies beneath the surface, with observations of nature and mythology often interwoven.
​Four by Seven
Four by Seven features:
John McNulty
Charlotte Kelly
Sallyann Beirne
Jenny Wood-Sullivan
Frank O’Sullivan
Siobhan Cox Carlos
Ida Mitrani
John McNulty
John studied at the National College of Art and Design
in Dublin and at the Etching Centre in Geneva and
most of his etchings have been published by London
Contemporary Art and marketed worldwide. From 1979
John has worked with three main themes; landscapes,
seascapes and sporting images.
Charlotte Kelly
Moving from her career as a community nurse, Charlotte now paints full time, with her first solo exhibition in June 2006 in Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. She works mainly in oils and describes her work as being abstract landscape and figurative.
Sallyann Beirne
​Sallyann studied Fine Art in Limerick, Dublin, and Cork,  
specialising in printmaking and later painting. Sallyann lives and works from her studio which is nestled in the countryside in between Craughwell and Loughrea in Co. Galway. Her work has been exhibited and sold throughout Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA.

‘My subject matter is nature. We are surrounded by constant movement, growth, and activity. Often we are unaware of it. I like that a stone wall which has existed for a very long time is home and refuge to an ever-evolving community of plants and animals or that a body of water will hold and protect all its species.
Through my painting, I attempt to pay tribute to the natural world by describing a tiny part of it. Each layer of paint peeping through the next represents its strength and the passage of time.’
Jenny Wood-Sullivan
My visual art-making begins as a story. Whether it is a found object or an idea I have or have seen somewhere, it develops out of my interest in history and how a story can change the reading or meaning of something. My interests range from human, natural and geological history to science-fiction and are in one way or another contained within the pieces I produce.
Ida Mitrani
​Ida Mitrani is a Turkish born French artist living in Ireland since 1997. Her artwork is about the accuracy and idealisation of chosen specimens. She tries to develop a poetic vision of the world while giving existence to the unobserved. By singling out the subject, the artist aims to depict every element that constitutes it, to bring that awareness to the public in order to focus a lens on the beauty in Nature. The universal beauty that link us all together.

She has recently been commissioned by Dublin City Council to design 3 maps illustrating the various communities of Dublin's historic central area. The maps are now part of the National Library of Ireland’s archives.

She exhibits widely.

Along with her artistic practice, Mitrani has been intensively teaching Art and Botanical Illustration over the past 13 years  in various colleges, museums and art centres including the London Art College. She has set up the first intensive Botanical course in Ireland in the Institute of Art and Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.

​Being a full member of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists, she is currently part of a worldwide Botanical Art project. The exhibition took place in the Botanical gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin in May 2018.
Etain Hickey
Etain specializes in highly decorated and lustred ceramics and has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions in London and Brussels.

​Her work is included in private and public collections including the Crafts Council of Ireland, The Ulster Museum and Fujita Museum Japan. Winner of the Irish Contemporary Ceramics 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award.

www.rossmorepottery.com 
Elizabeth Petcu
Her fine work in porcelain is found in many leading galleries and she sometimes illuminates her work from inside to show the translucency of the material.
Smaller Scale Work in Three Dimensions
These artists have been invited to display work which
features glass, ceramics and feltwork.

Robin Hansell, Emma O’Toole, Isabelle Peyrat and
Astrid Tomrop-Hofmann.
Aideen Monaghan
This artist’s commissioned work for Shorelines’s tenth anniversary is returning to be viewed in its totality. Her Ten Decades, Ten Cubes explores the development of agriculture in Portumna from 1917 to 2017 and its effect on the people of the town and its hinterland. Each facet of the ten cubes is painted with scenes and snatches of prose that tell the Portumna Story.
Local Artists
Local and visiting amateur artists will also exhibit work at the Gallery.
EVENT SPONSORS
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Framewright          Councillor Jimmy McClearn