Gort’s Gallery Café will host artists Leonie King and Siobhan Percy for its first exhibition of 2024.
The exhibition will officially open on Sunday, February 18, at 7pm.
King, from Oranmore, and Percy, who lives in Athenry, have worked alongside one another before, initiating the imPRESSions Original Print Biennial together which was a regular feature of the Galway International Arts Festival. Both have lectured at ATU, as well as exhibiting together as members of the AKIN Artist Collective.
Leonie King has travelled extensively, having spent time in South America, India, and Morocco. Foreign images and colours are brought home and blended with those of the Irish landscape. The effervescent colour changes of the sea and land transpose themselves into multi-layered prints that are responses to a communing with soil, rock, and that which ekes out an existence on it, and underneath the surface of the earth.
Siobhan Piercy calls her sculptures ‘books’. She is intrigued by this object of paper and ink that we use to tell stories to ourselves about ourselves. For this exhibition she presents a series of drawings that play with our perceptions by making marks that suggest writing, but in fact are documenting the world – in this case seascapes- in quite a different way.
The exhibition runs for two months at The Gallery Café in Gort, during restaurant hours.
See www.thegallerycafegort.com for more info.
