ELAINE BYRNE OIDHREACHT: TRANSFORMING TRADITION

HIGHLANES GALLERY DROGHEDA

Elaine Byrne is amongst the artists included in ‘Oidhreacht: Transforming Tradition’, opening Saturday the 13th July at the Highlanes Gallery Drogheda.

 

The exhibition will bring together a range of artworks from the 18th century to the contemporary moment exploring Irish traditional arts & culture. It will include diverse examples, some familiar, many not shown for some time, and will offer a sense of the wide range of representations and expressions of Irish traditional arts & culture in visual art and material culture both in historic and contemporary art.

Featuring; Jack Butler Yeats, Frederick William Burton, Elaine Byrne, George Campbell, John Cassidy, Simon Coleman, Ara Devine, Gerard Dillon, Laurence Fagan, Mike Fitzpatrick, Trevor Thomas Fowler, Joseph Patrick Haverty, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, James Humbert Craig, Seán Keating, Daniel Maclise, Philip Napier, Mick O’Dea, Alanna O’Kelly, George Petrie, Nano Reid, and Elizabeth Rivers

The exhibition runs until the 14th September 2019.

13 July 2019