Dearly Beloved 2019

ARTWORKS 2019: Dearly Beloved
04 June – 01 September

Presented by The Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow
Featuring selected works from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection

For ARTWORKS 2019 artists were invited to respond to the lyric:
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called LIFE.
Let’s go crazy, Prince. Purple Rain 1984

Selected Artists Include: Colin Crotty, Mark Cullen, Gabhann Dunne, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Jane Fogarty, Helen Hughes, Jonathan Mayhew, Paul Mosse, Oisín O’Brien, Tom O’Dea, Emma Roche, Joan Sugrue, Chanelle Walsh, Linda Conroy, Fiona Reilly, Sinead Ní Mhaonaigh.
Includes work for the IMMA Collection by artists: Pierre Huyghe, Mairead McLean, Mark O’Kelly, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Daphne Wright.

This year’s open call invited artists to submit work that comments on the trials of our post truth world and the potential of collective energy. Time, labour, love, loss, coping mechanisms, and space for imagining for the future, these are some of the themes that are explored in ARTWORKS 2019.
Along with artists selected from open submission,

List of works L-R

Speed Boat 

Acrylic on gesso board, 24 cm x 18cm

Drive In

Acrylic on gesso board, 24 cm x 18cm

Plunge Pool

Acrylic on gesso board, 24 cm x 18cm