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| Artwork by Fiona Ormsby |
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Group 8 will hold the opening of its annual exhibition, LEONARDO
500, on Tuesday the 15th October at 6pm in the Church Gallery in Ballinasloe
library. The exhibition will run for two weeks from that day and features writing, paintings, photography, textiles, ceramics, mixed media
and sculpture inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, whose quincentenary is this year. Writer
and art curator Margaret Hickey will open the exhibition.
LEONARDO
500 is the result of collaborative work the members of Group 8 undertook, taking
inspiration from the life, art and ideas of Italian painter, inventor and
literal Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci was an extraordinary
thinker, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and designs for the
first flying machine, parachute, and machine gun. Sigmund Freud said of him, ‘He
was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all
still asleep.’
Group
8, was founded in 2009 and is comprised of eight visual artists and two
writers: Joyce Little – visual and multimedia artist; Tommy Campbell – sculptor
and woodturner; Lily Kelly – visual artist; Grellan Ganly – visual artist; Úna
Spain – visual artist; Nuala O’Connor – writer; Zara Little-Campbell – writer;
John Soden – painter; Walter Coughlan – ceramicist; and Fiona Ormsby – textile
designer.
Group
8 is a non-profit, professional arts group whose aim is to foster awareness,
imagination and co-operative learning between the artist and the community. The
group hosts exhibitions, literary events, artist talks, readings, workshops and
book launches. See thegroup8.blogspot.com for more.
All
are welcome. Free admission. Refreshments will be served.
