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GAA `significant by its absence in art`
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31-Jul-2009 12:11
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`The Irish Times`
Artist Marley Irish hanging a painting for her exhibition titled Aristo-Cats at the Hibernian Hotel, Kilkenny.
Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
GAA `significant by its absence in art`
MICHAEL PARSONS in Kilkenny
Fri, Jul 31, 2009
AS A rare exhibition of paintings depicting hurling goes on public display, leading art experts have expressed surprise that Gaelic games feature so rarely in art despite their central role in the national culture.
Dr Brendan Rooney, of the National Gallery, said the GAA was “significant by its absence in art”.
He confirmed that there was no painting in the National Gallery’s collection devoted to hurling or football scenes.
In 2006, he curated a major exhibition at the National Gallery with over 80 paintings illustrating Irish social life over the past two centuries and had to borrow three paintings – from a very limited pool – to illustrate the GAA theme.
David Britton, a director with Adam’s fine art auctioneers on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, said “there ought to be a terrific market for paintings which depict the GAA given the nation’s fondness for rural and
traditional images in art but historically the games have never been depicted by the art establishment”.
He was puzzled by the dearth of hurling and football paintings given that “Irish genre pictures are perennially popular”.
Mr Britton could recall only one painting with a hurling theme having been sold at auction. Last year, a painting entitled All Ireland Hurling Final 1963, Waterford v Kilkenny was bought by a private collector from Cork for €12,000 at an Adam’s sale. The artist was Thomas Ryan and the painting was consigned from the collection of Charles Haughey. Irish (44 ) describes herself as “a self-taught artist” who is “passionately interested” in Gaelic games.
She has no studio and often paints in “a very busy farmhouse kitchen”.
The exhibition, which runs until August 17th, will be opened tonight at the Hibernian Hotel by Kilkenny hurling great Eddie Keher.
yankeelad
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31-Jul-2009 19:41
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She often paints in a very buisy farmhousr kitchen where she is no stranger to the odd feed of spuds & bacon by the looks of her.
long danny
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31-Jul-2009 19:45
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Does anyone have a link or know of a site where these could be viewed on line. I would be interested in having a look. You never know what might happen after that.. If her studio is in the kitchen and there is bacon and cabbage with Queens in the pot, I`ll have a plate while I`m there.
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31-Jul-2009 20:18
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The Art of Hurling was a fabulous exhibition at The Kenny Gallery in Galway in 2001. All contemporary artists, and AFAIR most of the works sold. If I had money at the time, I would have bought, but I was after buying my first home and needed a dishwasher.....
There was also a theatre production by Macnas in 2000, "The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy". Loosely based on Homer`s Odyssey, The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy tells the story of Terry Deasy who embarks on an odyssey throughout rural Ireland in search of his long-lost father, Ollie, a former hurling hero who single-handedly won the All Ireland final with an incredible display of hurling in 1964.....
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31-Jul-2009 21:09
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"Significant by its absence in Art", my sweet Aunt Fanny.
Obviously the Offaly Ireland win of 1994 is a closed book to both Ms Irish and her Times.
Deise Doggy Dogg
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01-Aug-2009 00:42
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I`m no art critic but the picture in the photo looks pretty good! How much for something like that I wonder.
Must head down for a look in the morning
scelp
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01-Aug-2009 13:16
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Is the Waterford lad being fouled?!!?
scelp
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01-Aug-2009 13:16
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Is the Waterford lad being fouled?!!?
osceola
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01-Aug-2009 13:21
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Originally posted by scelp:
Is the Waterford lad being fouled?!!?
I don`t know but what club does he play for?
scelp
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01-Aug-2009 13:29
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Could he be a Prender?
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01-Aug-2009 13:41
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Do they wear red in Ardmore?
scelp
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01-Aug-2009 13:49
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Most of the red is in the crowd. Maybe Cork minors played beforehand or have the cats an inordinate amount of gingers as fans?
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01-Aug-2009 15:39
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There was a GAA exhibition in a Gallery in Killarney a few years ago...it sold out!
Mentioned this dearth to a few artist buddies of mine and they told me bluntly they have no time for the GAAAAA!
Sums up the snobbery of that particular self obsessed bunch to the GAA and to sport in general!
Better to remain penniless and dependent on cnuases than to actually produce work that might sell.
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