Inspire The Artist Within
We have invited back the featured artists from last year, Jessica Baron, Clare Hartigan, Lynda Horgan and Bernadette Tuite, whose exhibition was cancelled last year to tell us about their inspiration and work process, in Kanturk Arts Festival Featured Artists Virtual Exhibition ’21
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Memories of Past Festivals
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Clare Hartigan is a graduate of Limerick Art College and represented by the prestigious and internationally recognised Duke Street gallery in Dublin. My paintings are worked in a drawn style which has come from the use of bitumen in printmaking. I love the energy of this method of painting/drawing. It is very fluid and often dictates
Next Wednesday February 19th at 8pm in the Rugby Club, Kanturk Arts Festival Programme 2020 will be launched by Bernard Moynihan MCC, chairman of Mallow-Kanturk Municipal Council. On the night there will be music and refreshments will be served. A great deal of work has gone into making this year’s
Bernadette Tuite After many years in California where Bernadette worked as a boat captain, and her ambition to obtain an art degree Bernadette began her journey by setting up a ceramic studio in her native Co. Meath in 2011. To improve her knowledge in 2012 she obtained a place with
Lynda Horgan is an Irish artist, born and raised in Killarney, Co. Kerry, she studied Fine art in Limerick Institute of Technology. Since that date, she has exhibited widely, the most recent being in the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon, her works have been published and can be found in many
I am a mixed media artist from Cork living in Mallow for the past four years. I have a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art Printmaking and graduated in 2015 with an MA by Research through Art Practice. My work has received the Locating the Gothic Legacy Award and The Curators Choice Drawing Award.
Originally from Quebec, in Canada, Jessica is a contemporary visual artist based in Ballydesmond in the West of Ireland. Having painted in oils for many years, her current work depicts the unspoiledlandscapes, the contrast in light at different times, seasons and in differentweathers. Brief moments often taken just on the
Kanturk Arts Festivals’ Flash Fiction Long List 2020 So, if you’ve made it this far, congratulations – below you will find the titles only of our long list selection of 50 stories. Our judge for 2020 Breda Joy who will deliberate on the long-listed stories and decide on a shortlist
_Crime Writing Workshop with Kevin Doyle _ 10 am – 1 pm Trades Union Hall Kanturk. €15 Crime writing is now one of the leading writing genres with books sales in Ireland and the UK continuing to climb. Using recent crime writing success stories, this workshop will focus on the essentials
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