BVW Prog 2010.qxp:Layout 1 - Offaly County Council

VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS VISUAEstate Office, Rosse RowFriday 13 August, 6.30pmVISUAL ARTS TRAILOFFICIAL OPENING AND LAUNCHMeet the Artists exhibiting across thisyear’s Visual Arts Trail. All welcome.Offaly County CouncilComhairle Chontae Uíbh FhailíESTATE OFFICE, ROSSE ROW Open Daily • 1:30-6pm • See No. 4 on MapRoesyArtist, singer/songwriter and native of Birr, Roesy exhibits his trademark style ofillustrative, colourful creatures and fairytale imaginings. Alongside these, for thefirst time, Roesy ventures towards his own depiction of the Offaly landscape.Roesy also plays The Chestnut Garden on August 16th, 8pm, joined by pianistJosh Johnston. www.roesy.netGhislaine Howard The Circus Animals Desertion‘I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,I sought it daily for six weeks or so.’ WB YeatsIn her imagination, Ghislaine Howard (Marianne Dobson) equates her Irish home,the Old Distillery in Birr, with Thoor Ballylee, Yeats’ famous tower - inspirationfor so much of his poetry. Ghislaine interweaves images suggested by Yeats’late poem, The Circus Animal’s Desertion with references to her own life andwork in this suite of monotypes and related works. An artist known for powerfuland expressive paintings that record and interpret shared human experience,Ghislaine exhibits widely in the UK and Europe. www.ghislainehoward.comNicky LarkinPhotographic Exhibition and Pripyat (Short Film Screening)Born in Birr, Nicky Larkin studied Fine Art in G.M.I.T. and Chelsea College of Art,London. He has exhibited widely across Ireland and the UK with video installationsand sound-pieces. In 2007 he travelled to the Chernobyl exclusion zone to shootthe experimental short Pripyat, which was subsequently screened at manyprestigious International Film Festivals. In 2009, he travelled to Bosnia andHerzegovina to create a body of photographic work for a solo exhibition. Healso visited Moldova and the de-facto independent separatist state of Transnistria.