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Lorg Printmakers Gallery Opening show

Venue: Lorg Printmakers' Gallery, Unit 7, Ballybane Enterprise Centre

Date: Until July 30th

Galway West TD Michael D Higgins will officially open Lorg Printmakers’ first exhibition and auction at its new gallery space on Friday, 9 July at 7pm.

The artists whose work will feature include Aideen Barry, Sandra Bunting, Aisling Bradley, Eilish Carthy, Roisin Coyle, Agata Derda, Eileen Graham, Mary Geelegher, Catherine Kelly, Ursula Kelly, Lynne O Loughlin, Grace Mitchell, Sioban Piercy, Eydit Pieperhoff, and Heidi Reich. The exhibition will be open Monday to Friday, from 11am to 4pm, and runs until Friday 30 July.

Lorg, which is based at Unit 8, Ballybane Enterprise Centre, Ballybane, aims to enhance, encourage and support a stronger printmaking community in the West. Through the provision of an open access, professional printmaking workshop in Galway, Lorg will heighten the awareness of printmaking as an accessible, unique and innovative art form.

The Lorg workshop provides both emerging and established artists with the opportunity to make and exhibit their work and also to connect with other artists and community groups. Lorg recognises and promotes the role of art in creating opportunities for social inclusion, education and civic pride.

Lorg supports this role through a series of regular outreach and community engagement projects and education programmes. Regularly organised member shows and training classes allow local printmakers to advance their artistic careers by expanding their knowledge of all printmaking processes, and providing them with the opportunity to sell their work.

Lorg strives to collaborate with as many artists’ studios and other arts organisations as possible, furthering members’ contact and experience with the local, national and international art scene. This facility also serves to support the much celebrated status of Galway City and County as places of creativity and productivity.

[Source: www.galwayindependent.com]

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