A FEAST FOR THE EYES
WORK OF 82 ARTISTS FEATURED IN GREENACRES EXHIBITION
OVER 200 artworks by 82 artists provide a feast for the eyes at an open submission exhibition in Greenacres Gallery in Selskar, Wexford.
Given that there is no selection or vetting process for the annual event and all entries received are displayed in the gallery, the standard is impressively high throughout.
‘We invite each artist to submit four pieces of work and everything that we get we put up on the walls’, said the gallery’s art administrator Julie Barlow.
‘It’s open to everyone from artists starting out and working part-time to established artists.The standard is very good this year. There is great quality and some really nice pieces.’
Artists from the four corners of Ireland including several from County Wexford are represented in the exhibition which includes paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures. It will continue until March 25.
For some people it’s their first time exhibiting in a gallery and it’s a proud occasion for them, according to Julie who said the official opening by gallery proprietor James O’Connor was attended by a huge number of people including families and friends of the exhibitors.
Prices range from €120 for a pencil drawing to €4.900 for a mixed media sculpture of three dancers entitled ‘Daisy Chains’ in 23 carat gold leaf oils and granite by the artist Helen Merrigan Colfer of Wexford.
The work of the well-known Dublin-based sculptor Fiona Smith is also featured along with the Irish-based Russian artist Diana Pivovorava whose work sells well in Greenacres and the Cork-based artist Ann Brown who is originally from Wexford and has submitted large-scale portraits of famous musicians. Other Wexford artists include Marian Campbell, Deborah Stedman and Aileen Roice Murphy.