‘Clay and Ink’ on show in Westport
An exhibition entitled ‘Clay and Ink’ is running at the Greenway Gallery, James Street, Westport until Saturday, August 31. This exhibition features the work of two Mayo Artists, Therese O’Halloran from Foxford and Val McLoughlin from Ballina.
Therese O’Halloran is currently working a a lecturer at the Ames School of Art in Bloomington, Illinois in the United States. She studied at the Limerick School of Art and Illinois State University where she received her MFA degree. She creates ceramics in stoneware, firing some using the Japanese method of ‘raku’ and using a variety of coloured glazes which produces very individual artworks. She is exhibiting both wall pieces and tabletop pieces in sculptural forms.
Val McLoughlin, who studied art at the Crawford College of Art in Cork, is a printmaker who works mainly in relief printmaking – linocuts and woodcuts or combinations of both of these methods. His exhibition features landscape scenes from Co Mayo, in particular from the north Mayo coastline. However, he also combines text and image using poetry to produce a contrasting type of vision – one of which is ‘Is Mise Raifteirí’ by the Mayo poet Raftery. The prints are printed by hand on Japanese and European papers in small limited editions.
The Greenway Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.45pm. Admission is free.
