Supported by Kildare Co Co Arts Service
Ar an Imeall – Island Paintings an exhibition of more than 50 oil paintings of Ireland’s offshore islands. The exhibition is part of a larger project exploring and documenting the islands. It records, celebrates, respects and remembers the individual world that each island is and was to those that lived and still live on it.
Further development of the project will look at ways to go deeper into these investigations of moments of life on the islands, memories, imagined memory, struggles to stay, the devastation of leaving, the reality of living in isolation.
This is not just a project consisting of paintings of islands, it also focuses on island people, their stories, the voices of current and past inhabitants, folklore, songs, poems and traditions.
The Stories: Click here