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Muintir, The Snug, Mountshannon, Raheen Hospital and Scariff Library, Co Clare
The Snug, Mountshannon, Raheen Hospital and Scariff Library, Co Clare
Muintir is part of the Iniscealtra Festival of the Arts and is a celebration of art forms from local, national and international communities. The exhibition from the IMMA Collection includes work from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection including artists such as Madge Gill, Albert Louden and Oswald Tschirtner. The Outsider work will be exhibited in the recently opened Snug Gallery and Raheen Hospital while Francis Street Boys by John Ahearn and Untitled by Hannah Starkey will be shown at the Scariff Library and the Bank of Ireland, Scariff respectively.
 "John Ahearn, St Francis Street Boys, 1994, Plaster and acrylic paint, Dimensions variable, Collection Irish Musuem of Modern Art, Donation, the artist, 1994")
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of workshops in Raheen Hospital for the day care visitors and for local national school pupils. The workshops will be facilitated by the artist Terry O’Farrell and are supported in part the Department of Education and Science.
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