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The talented Donegal artist, Jacinta Callaghan, is thrilled to announce the opening of her first solo art exhibition, titled ’A Journey Through Landscapes – Memories of Donegal’. The exhibition will be hosted at the Regional Cultural Centre, Port Road, Letterkenny, from Saturday, 18th January 2025 to Saturday, 22nd February 2025. The official opening will take place on Saturday, 18th January 2025 at 3:00 […]

The ‘Other Worlds’ exhibition right here on our doorstep in rural Donegal is an accomplished curation of our national collection of art at this moment in time.  Both the traditional and the contemporary greatly captivate the senses as one era or art form is allowed to segue into the next, regardless of media, artistic intent,

Aileen Mc Keogh’s A Break in the Clouds to me for its uniqueness and originality. It has a haunting presence and a strong message. The sculpture is created mainly in pieces of burnt paper depicting a burnt hillside. It is all silent there now the insects that lived there on the earth are all dead, the birds have

On being asked to respond to the ‘Other Worlds’ exhibition with thoughts on my favourite work and how it resonates I was challenged to name  just one work as there are so many that call out to me in different ways. In the end I returned to the piece that spoke to me so powerfully on

Martin Gale’s work at RCC ‘Other Worlds’ Meditation as an event of the mind reflected and documented through the act of creating a painting is what I see in Martin Gale’s paintings each time I look there to see, to give it the existential attention his works deserve. In the watercolour painting ‘The Appointment’ from