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On Friday ten leading commercial art galleries will open their doors for the capital’s first Dublin Gallery Weekend. While the world of art collecting may seem
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Artist Mary Burke’s exhibition ‘At Home on the Farm’ will run at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA), Pery Square, Limerick, from February 25 to May 2.
In this first exhibition of the new year at LCGA, Mary’s paintings of her experience on five Limerick farms take centre stage.
For four decades, she has captured suburban Dublin scenes in oil pastels in a style that honours the quiet, still suburban sanctuary spaces of Irish homes and housing estates.
These new works at LCGA called ‘At Home on the Farm’ represent a bold new departure. After 40 years of diligently documenting the urban and suburban, Mary has made a radical shift in direction.