DAUGHTERS OF INAGH: an exhibition by Antoinette Spillane in the Red Couch Space at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon.  

From  March 6th – 1st April.      

Opening times: Tuesday – Friday 12 – 4pm. 

Official opening on March 6th at 5pm by artist/architect SiobhanCuffe-Wallace.

Daughters of Inagh:  an exhibition of work created at the mouth of the river Inagh.

These are three strands of an ongoing body of work, called Motherline,  which include:

A series of  photographs of  sand sculptures.

A series of  images of light and water around a form which is dissolving as we look.

Exerpts from a series of images called ”My Dress Hangs There”  

Antoinette Spillane lives and works in Liscannor, Co. Clare.  She is a community artist, dancer, writer and teacher. 

She has travelled widely to study dance, music and art in places where people’s artistry is expressed within community as a functional part of the rituals of daily life and always imbued with a sense of invocation of the Divine in nature. She is interested in situations where the separation of  artist and audience does not occur.. 

 “The local river carries esences of all the lives that were formed and sustained by her waters.

I work to harmonise and align myself in this chain.  To pay respect to the women

who went before, and carry their truth to the young women growing up now.

I believe that when the woman is calm and centered in her line, everyone benefits and prospers.”

In conjunction with her own “Bog” exhibition, Trudi van der Elsen invited fellow Clare artist, Antoinette Spillane, to exhibit her Daughters Of Inagh in the Red Couch Space upstairs at the Courthouse Gallery. Van der Elsen explains: “ It was fascinating for me to meet Antoinette, who was also inspired by The Bog People book. Our work has a very strong connection. I particularly admire her sculptural expressions in sand.” 

Daughters of Inagh:  an exhibition of work created at the mouth of the river Inagh.