Programme
The Limerick Show: Artist Walkthrough
The Limerick Show concludes with an event on Saturday, 1 February. Join us from 2–4pm for an informal discussion with Shirani Bolle, Asha Murray, Sorcha O’Brien, and Robert Ryan, during which they will share insights into their practice and the artworks they contributed to this exhibition.
This event begins at 2pm sharp. All are welcome and booking is not required.
About the artists:
Shirani Bolle is a multi-heritage artist with Sri Lankan/Jewish roots. She is interested in recontextualising the colour palettes, imagery, and traditional textile-making techniques of South Asian art as part of her fine art practice, taking her work into a third space that is neither South Asian nor European but somewhere in between.
Asha Murray is a multidisciplinary artist. She uses experimental film and diaristic textile works of wool-tufted collages to explore the social constructs surrounding identity, memory, temporality, consumerism, and feminism. Her work takes everyday, mundane objects that are typically disregarded and upscales them to elevate their significance and sentimentality.
Sorcha O’Brien is an artist who works in drawing, wax, ceramic, and soft sculpture. She is interested in the tensions that are created when these materials are brought together and intertwined with the body. In her works, the body is treated as an equivalent material, an object that can be shaped, adjusted, and reorganised.
Robert Ryan is a painter with an interest in zoology. His allegorical paintings and drawings seek to celebrate the commonality between mankind and animals. The landscapes, inhabited by hybrid, dog-like creatures, combine the tradition of the European old masters with a concern about contemporary issues.
About The Limerick Show:
Assembled from an open call, The Limerick Show offers a platform for artists to enter into discourse with peers, to present the public with a measure of what is being produced at a particular moment, and to create a forum for critical conversation in response to visual art. This iteration of the exhibition was co-selected by Melissa Appletion, co-director of Peak Cymru.
