An Exhibition of New Work by Gary Coyle

  • Start Date: 30 October 2009
  • End Date: 15 November 2009
  • Venue: Dun Laoghaire
  • Time: Mon-Fri: 10.00am-5.00pm Sun: 12.00pm-5.00pm CLOSED SATURDAY
  • Price: Free
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Venue: Concourse, County Hall, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Dún Laoghaire Portraits

“For the past few years while going about my daily business in Dún Laoghaire,
I began to imagine what it must be like to make drawings of some of the
people that I encountered. This came as a surprise, though a keen fan of
almost all forms of visual art, I have never personally been interested in
depicting the human form. Anyway, this idea remained in the back of my mind
as an idea never acted upon, until I applied to the Place and Identity Public
Art Programme, which provided the impetus. In total there are nine portraits,
all the same size (145 x 101cm), format and medium, charcoal on paper: and
all made in the same fashion, initially working from photographs, an image is
drawn and then erased, drawn and erased and hopefully over time an image
will form. The sitters are of all ages and from every walk of life, eight males and
one female, which is an imbalance I intend to redress in the future.”
Gary Coyle.

For More Information: http://www.dlrcoco.ie/arts

  



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