THIS WEEK IN KILKEE
There is ALWAYS something going on in Kilkee
You just have to know where and when it is happening......
This Week in Kilkee - APRIL
Clare Arts displays the talent of local artists year-round at the Culturlan Sweeney Kilkee and provides Concerts and Film Club in the winter months.
Art Exhibition
Kilkee Library
Cultúrlann Sweeney
March 19th- April 19th
Free Entry
All Welcome
Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present “Fleeting Moments” an exhibition of art by Myra O’Reilly.
Between studying and teaching art, working in various galleries and studios, and eventually becoming a full-time painter, O’Reilly has kept her hand and her heart in the creative process for the past 35 years.
A native of Limerick, Myra studied Fine Art Painting in LSAD and graduated from there as a mature student in 1994.
Over the next 30 years, she worked and/or taught in studios and galleries while painting part-time having numerous one-man and group shows along the way.
O’Reilly’s work is mainly figurative in her own distinctive narrative style, oils being her preferred medium.
Drawing from old family photos, this exhibition ‘Fleeting Moments’ revisits the female figure through black and whites taken on holidays in Clare. She has found this journey to be quite emotive at times, not only bringing home to her the beauty of life fully lived but also the impermanence of it all.
Art Exhibition
Kilkee Library
Cultúrlann Sweeney
April 23rd- May 24th
Free Entry
All Welcome
Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present ‘Rineanna/Shannon Airport, images from the past’ a watercolour exhibition by Philip Brennan.
This is his 24th solo exhibition since 1982. His paintings are inspired by the landscape, sea, wildlife, music and history of County Clare, much heavily influenced by being an active naturalist. He has mainly exhibited locally, but also around Ireland, in Italy and the USA. He has published two books of his paintings and writing; ‘Clare’ (2002) and ‘Wanderings’ (2006) and illustrated ‘The Birds of Killarney National Park’ (1995).
In the past, he has occasionally featured themes involving aviation at Shannon. He began the present collection in 2019, with the idea of exploring the stories around the foundation of Shannon Airport, called Rineanna in the early days. Rineanna was intended as a seaplane/ land-based airport, so the subjects tackled in this show are diverse, from the building of the banks around the airport in the 1930’s, agriculture on the airfield, seaplanes, the first plane to land, right up to the Air Corps helicopters at present.
He was invited to show the exhibition at Shannon Airport in 2023 and this showing in Kilkee is the start of bringing it to other venues.