Exhibitions

5 February - 30 April 2010

Yeats and the Golden Age of Print

An exhibition of 22 Graphic Studio Dublin artists, based on 11 poems of William Butler Yeats.

Primary Colours is an annual exhibition at Sligo Art Gallery to increase diaogue and interraction within the visual arts programme, to include schools, and the local community.

Given the cultural integration with the Yeats family in Co. Sligo, and given the intrinsic link between fine art print and the written word, specifically through the Yeats' sisters Cuala Press, Sligo Art Gallery felt it appropriate to invite members of Graphic Studio Dublin to respond to the poems of William Butler Yeats. This is particularly appropriate given that 2010 is Graphic Studio Dublin's 50th anniversary, and its original core group of founders included William Butler Yeats' daughter Anne Yeats.

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The artists responded to various poems by William Butler Yeats including: Down by the Salley Gardens, When You are Old and Grey, Byzantium, The Cat and the Moon and 'A Man Young and Old' (I First Love, II Human Dignity and III The Mermaid). Each artist has made one work.

Sligo Art Gallery

Click on the thumbnails to view in full, dimensions refer to image size h x w. Paper size is 25 cm x 30 cm

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Click on images below to view artists' statements and more prints from the exhibition

Debora Ando Untitled, Spit bite , 19.5 cm x 19.5 cm, Edition of 10, €250	Gerard Cox Byzantium, Woodblock, 30 cm x 25 cm, Edition of 18, €200	Caroline Donohue Little Snow White Feet, Etching with Aquatint, 30 cm x 25 cm, Edition of 20, €160	Cliona Doyle White Moths Were on the Wing, From the Song of Wandering Aonghus, Aquatinted Etching, 25 cm x 30 cm, Edition of 20, €230
Niamh Flanagan Minnaloushe Moon, Etching, 18 cm x 23 cm, Edition of 20, €165	Nickie Hayden Lucky Minnow, Mezzotint, Edition of 20, €160	Brian Lalor The Ceremony of Innocence, Etching & Aquatint, 18 cm x 25, Edition of 20, €200	Stephen Lawlor Glencar, Etching & Spit Bite Aquatint, 14 cm x 12 cm, Edition of 50, €160
Sharon Lee Pollexfen=Middleton \| JB Yeats=Pollexfen, Lithograph, 25 cm x 30 cm, Edition of 15, €100	Maev Lenaghan And She Put the Book Down, Etching, 21.3 cm x 24.5 cm, Edition of 20, €160	Pamela Leonard A Man Young & Old: lll The Mermaid, Etching, Edition of 20, €210	Kelvin Mann Hades Angels, Etching, Edition of 20, €200
Andrzej Mazur (after Down by the Salley Gardens), Etching, Edition of 20, €200	James McCreary Man and the Echo, Mezzotint & Aquatint, 29 cm x 6 cm, Edition of 16, €240	Margo McNulty Break of Day, Photopolmer photogravure, Edition of 15, €220	Liam Ó Broin The Cat and The Moon by William Butler Yeats, Lithograph, Edition of , €125
Geraldine O'Reilly In the Hazelwood (After The Song of Wandering Aonghus), 3 plate etching (hard ground, aquatint, drypoint), 13 cm x 18 cm, Edition of 15, €230	image coming soon... Caroline Patten Little Sphinx of Fifty (after The Second Coming), Etching, Edition of 50, €120	image coming soon... Marc Reilly Under Saturn, Etching, Edition of 10, €150	Robert Russell Red Vessel, Etching with aquatint, 15 cm x 20 cm, Edition of 20, €230
Michael Timmons Floating Man, Lithograph, 15 cm x 20 cm, Edition of 14, €140	Katherine Van Uytrecht By The Salley Gardens, Lithograph, 12 cm x 12 cm, Edition of 20, €90