‘Timelines: Growth and Catastrophe’ opens at 6 pm on Culture Night (September 20th) in Roscommon Arts Centre, with guest speaker Dr Ann O’Mahony. The exhibition will run until October 24th.
The exhibition is a collaboration between eight innovative contemporary artist weavers: Roscommon’s Frances Crowe, along with Muriel Beckett, Tish Canniffe, Pascale De Coninck, Lorna Donlon, Terry Dunne, Catherine Ryan, and Heather Underwood. This, their third collaboration, has been supported by Creative Ireland.
Exploring ideas of resilience at a time of global challenge, instability, and uncertainty, this exhibition showcases a new one-metre by five-metre tapestry, eight new individual tapestries, and a short documentary film. Drawing from a broad range of diverse visual references, this collaboration also incorporates current UCD plant science research imagery.
Roscommon-based artist Frances Crowe, who is one of the eight artist weavers, acknowledges Creative Ireland support of this project (through counties Roscommon, Cork, Laois and Wexford), which allowed the artists to produce a catalogue and film the entire process.
Frances says, “I am thrilled and excited that the ‘Timelines: Growth and Catastrophe’ exhibition was invited to be launched in Roscommon Arts Centre for Culture Night 2024. This unique project has been in the making for almost thirty months, bringing together a community of Irish artists/weavers from six counties across Ireland. I am sure that everyone who visits the exhibition will be astounded by the skill, the dedication, and the stories behind all the imagery”.
