HIGHLANES TO HOST EXHIBITION WITH BREXIT LINKS
HIGHLANES Gallery, Drogheda and the FE McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, present a joint exhibition entitled Crossing Lines, which will run concurrently in both galleries from 23 November 2018 to 26 January 2019.
The exhibition explores ideas of dissent, dissonance, and difference in art and society; embracing change, inspiring hope, and the important role that art and artists have in challenging traditional thinking, provoking reflection, insight and fostering new ideas that often defy the norm.
Crossing Lines is a response to the challenges of Brexit from the perspective of two galleries whose very existence was built on a cross border partnership to provide a major cultural and tourism resource for the border region.
This project has at its heart a serious effort to increase cross-community and cross border co-operation in the arts and culture through a special East Border Region EU INTERREG IIIA Partnership.
The opening of these cross-border exhibitions will be marked by a special live performance by Nigel Rolfe at Highlanes Gallery on Friday 23 November at 7.30pm.
In accepting the adversity of our current global condition, and its often fierce antagonistic and conflicting ideologies, this exhibition considers individual and collective expressions of difference, across race, gender, sexuality, class, & religious, political and social systems, globalisation and climate change, and how human expression can shape society.
Among the artists exhibiting are Duncan Campbell, Joy Gerrard, Stuart Brisley, Susan Philipsz and Maud Sulter; with artwork selected from artists’ studios, the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland at the Ulster Museum.