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CUIMHNÍ (Memories)

New works by Leah Beggs & Kathleen Furey

OCAP is delighted to present CUIMHNÍ (Memories) which features new work from local artists Leah Beggs & Kathleen Furey.  The Exhibition had originally been planned as part of the SET IN STONE Project which was selected for Galway 2020 Small Towns Big Ideas Project.  The SET IN STONE project focuses on the research of local Archaeologist and Historian Bill Daly, who has traced the history of Oughterard back to Neolithic times.  

CUIMHNÍ will open in Oughterard Courthouse on Friday 16th July 2021 and continue to Sunday 25th July 2021.  The Exhibition will be launched on Friday 16th July from 5.30pm-7.30pm.  All welcome!  Open to the public Monday to Saturday 10am -5pm and Sundays 12-5pm.  

 

*Face coverings must be worn in the gallery and visitor numbers will be restricted for the comfort of all.



 

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Leah Beggs 2020 - Oil on Canvas - 80 x 8

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS

Medium:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  80cm x 80cm

Price:  €2450

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Ancient Landscape, Farming 1

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  35cm x 50cm

Price:  €595

Kathleen Furey, Ancient Landscape, Farmi
Leah Beggs 2020 - Oil on Canvas - 46 x 4

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  AFTER THE RAINS

Medium:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  46cm x 46cm

Price:  €1300

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Ancient Landscape, Farming 2

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  35cm x 50cm

Price:  €595

Kathleen Furey, Ancient Landscape, Farmi
leah Beggs 2021 - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 60cm - SUN SOAKED I.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  SUN SOAKED I

Medium:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  60cm x 60cm

Price:  €1850

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Ancient Landscape, Farming 3

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  35cm x 50cm

Price:  €595

Kathleen Furey Anient Landscape, Farming
leah Beggs 2021 - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 60cm - SUN SOAKED II.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  SUN SOAKED II

Medium:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  60cm x 60cm

Price:  €1850

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Wild Pig, Afternoon

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  20cm x 26cm

Price:  €350

Kathleen Furey Wild Pig afternoon 16 x 2
Leah Beggs 2020 - Oil on Canvas - 71 x 7

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  ROARING WATER

Medium:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  71cm x 71cm

Price:  €2000

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Hyena in an Ancient Landscape

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  30cm x 33cm

Price:  €450

Kathleen Furey Hyena in an Ancient Lands
Leah Beggs 2021 - Acrylic on Paper-  14 x 14 cm - GORSE I .jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  GORSE 1

Medium:  Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions:  14cm x 14cm

Price:  €195

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Ancient Landscape 2

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  24cm x 30cm

Price:  €350

Kathleen Furey Ancient Landscape 2, 14 x
Leah Beggs 2021 - Acrylic on Paper-  14 x 14 cm - GORSE III .jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  GORSE II

Medium:  Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions:  14cm x 14cm

Price:  €195

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Ancient Landscape 1

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  24cm x 30cm

Price:  €295

Kathleen Furey Ancient Landscape I (b &
Leah Beggs 2019 - Acrylic on Paper - 13.5 x 18cm - STUDY 106.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  STUDY 106

Medium:  Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions:  13cm x 18cm

Price:  €195

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Bear at Fern Forest

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  18cm x 23.5cm

Price:  €250

Kathleen Furey, Bear at Fern Forest, 19 x 23.jpg
Leah Beggs 2019 - Acrylic on Paper - 13.5 x 18cm - STUDY 206.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  STUDY 206

Medium:  Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions:  13cm x 18cm

Price:  €195

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Forefather (variable edition 10)

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  23cm x 20cm

Price:  €195

Kathleen Furey, Forefather (Variable Edi
Leah Beggs 2019 - Acrylic on Paper - 13.5 x 18cm - STUDY 101.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  STUDY 101

Medium:  Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions:  13cm x 18cm

Price:  €195

Leah Beggs  - Acrylic annd Ink on Yupo Paper - 20 x 20cm  - ROCK POOLS.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  ROCK POOLS

Medium:  Acrylic and Ink on Yupo Paper

Dimensions:  20cm x 20cm

Price:  €250

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  White Deer

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  24cm x 30cm

Price:  €350

Kathleen Furey, White Deer, Monoprint .jpeg

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Rock Pool 3

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  21.5cm x 25cm

Price:  €250

Kathleen Furey Rockpool 3,  21.5 x 25 cm Mixed media print .jpeg
Leah Beggs  - Acrylic annd Ink on Yupo Paper - 20 x 20cm - HILLTOP.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  HILLTOP

Medium:  Acrylic and Ink on Yupo Paper

Dimensions:  20cm x 20cm

Price:  €250

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Rock Pool 4

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  21.5cm x 25cm

Price:  €250

Kathleen Furey Rockpool 4,  21.5 x 25 cm Mixed media print .jpeg
Leah Beggs 2020 - Acrylic and Pastel on Paper - 25 x 23cm  - RAIN II.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  RAIN II

Medium:  Pastel on Paper

Dimensions:  25cm x 23cm

Price:  €250

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Wildlife 1

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  21.5cm x 25cm

Price:  €195

Kathleen Furey Wildlife I, 21.5 x 25cm Mixed Media Print .jpeg
Leah Beggs 2020 - Acrylic and Pastel on Paper - 25 x 23cm - RAIN I.jpg

Artist:  Leah Beggs

Title:  RAIN I

Medium:  Pastel on Paper

Dimensions:  25cm x 23cm

Price:  €250

Artist:  Kathleen Furey

Title:  Wildlife 4

Medium:  Mixed Media Print

Dimensions:  21.5cm x 25cm

Price:  €195

Kathleen Furey, Wildlife 4, 21.5 x 25 cm Mixed media print .jpeg

Leah Beggs

Leah Beggs is originally from Dublin she currently lives and works in Oughterard.  She is a graduate of Dunlaoghaire College of Art and Design.

She has exhibited widely in Ireland with recent solo exhibitions at Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (Jan 2019, Sept 2016 & Oct 2014), The Market Place Arts Centre Armagh (Jan 2013) The Kenny Gallery Galway (Feb 2009) The Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar (May 2009) and The Signal Arts Centre Bray (Sept 2009).

Her work forms part of various collections in Ireland including Trinity College Dublin, IBEC, The Doyle Hotel Collection, Deloitte Art Collection, Savills Ireland, Garda HQ, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, An Bord Pleanála, Microsoft Irish Art Collection, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, The National Concert Hall and the Department of the Taoiseach.

She was awarded an individual artist Bursary from Galway County Council in 2011, 2013 & 2017.

 www.leahbeggs.com

Artist's Statement

“Ideas around climatic effects on the landscape are one facet to my paintings, whilst other more abstract concepts explore an emotive response to the landscape by reminiscing or suggesting a ‘sense’ of place, an atmosphere or a feeling, rather than depicting a particular scene.

This body of work is responding to ideas put forward by local historian Bill Daly and his work on the ancient landscape of Oughterard. I recall him speaking of very different weather patterns and the importance of the hills and the river to the Neolithic man in Oughterard. He mentioned 20 years of rain, how the discovery of copper in the land helped the move into the Bronze Age and the importance of the surrounding habitat, the river, the hills etc. in relation to how they lived.

This information inspired a series of sketches and small paintings in acrylic on paper, exploring the marks and scars on the riverbed, the colours of the metals in the land and the movement of the rain. Larger works of oil on canvas are reimagined landscapes that portray my emotive response to the landscape that surrounded them once, the same places that surround me now.”

 

 

Kathleen Furey

Kathleen Furey is from Galway. She studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design graduating in 1984. Her work responds to her experiences and surroundings, explores narrative and image relationships and deals with loss, memory and moments of realisation. Recent work reflects on how information comes to us through marks on a surface, how we discover traces of people who lived before us and how we interpret their stories and histories. Her work has been exhibited both at home and abroad and is included in public and private collections.

www.kathleenfurey.com

 

Artist's Statement

The landscape we live in interests me. Recently there has been time to explore locally, to cycle and walk in the landscape, to experience sunrises and sunsets and imagine the lives of people who inhabited the land before us. The fields, hills and waterways we see today may have been the setting for unknowable acts and events at another time. My work for this exhibition references history, myth, memory and observation. It responds to personal research regarding our ancestors, our earliest flora and fauna and new research and theories put forward by archaeologist Bill Daly.  The images combine processes such as drypoint, collograph, monoprinting and chine collé.

 

 

 


 

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