Open Submission
Exhibition 2024
Curated by Rowena Keaveny
“A Place is only a Place?”
A sense of community is found in the connections people make to each and their environment, consisting of memories, experiences, attachments, cultures and generations making a place more than a physical space. Place is more than just a location, an Eircode or a spot on a map. A sense of place is a unique set of qualities and characteristics- visual, cultural, natural and social- that provide a meaning to a location.
Exhibition | 3 - 9 August 2024
THE MAX, MAIN STREET
We are very pleased to announce that one of the selected artists will be awarded a solo exhibition in 2025.
SELECTED ARTISTS
Vera Ryklova
Pauline Dunleavy
Lane Shipsley Palmer
Louise Reid
Scott Hartney
Viktoriia Kondratieva
Beatrice Stapleton
Emer Gaffey
Nuala O'Sullivan
Jill Parkinson
Olivia Finn
Owen De Forge
Ciara Connolly
Eileen Ferguson
Philip Ryan
Anita Geaney
Dee McKiernan
Emma Barone
Michael Molloy
Christina Hall
Hazel Greene
Richard Kennedy
Key Dates
Pádraig Browne
Christor
Frances Kawala
Tony Gunning
John Kennedy
Elena Fleming
Lorraine Lawlor
Jean Timoney Forristal
Jock Nichol
Ellie Cullen
Andrea Moore
Aideen O'Brien
Esther Lambe
Anna Kavanagh
Maria Donegan
Trisha Connors
Eileen Keane
Elena Fleming
Kathleen Gilligan
Patricia Prout
Sheila Hough
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Rowena Keaveny
Rowena is a visual artist & art therapist. Her work uses digital media and socially engaged practice to explore the diverse issues surrounding social inclusion, disability, and access to cultural participation by marginalised groups. Rowena is deeply committed to working in an arts in health context and is an arts facilitator with Anam Beo, an arts, health and wellbeing organisation working with older adults in residential and day care settings in Co. Offaly. Rowena has a special research interest in the use of technology in art therapy and is also the co-editor of Polyphony: Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists.
Collection of work