Carnew’s Maeve to host ‘Threads of My Life’ show
CARNEW-based artist Maeve Hunter will be hosting her exhibition ‘ Threads of My Life’ in the Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely during the month of August.
In her latest exhibition, Maeve intertwines watercolours, textiles and mixed media that narrate the artist’s love of Africa and threads of association that binds her to that continent.
Having first visited Africa as a child she returned as an adult and developed her artistic practice while travelling across all four provinces: North, South, East and West.
Her work takes inspiration from the colours, textures and people of Africa. She combines the delicacy of watercolours with African fabrics while also bring- ing her Celtic heritage into the visual image.
A select number of textile pieces in this exhibition were created in 2014 while on an artist residency programme in Namibia.
A graduate of NCAD, her practice is equally split between her own creative practice and working as an educator and arts facilitator.
Maeve is currently the Education and Outreach Officer at the Courthouse Arts Centre.
The exhibition, which opens officially on Sunday, August 13, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., runs from Saturday, August 5, right through to Friday, August 25, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.