Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford Tues- Sat 10am-6pm Jan 11-Feb 6 091-23764
Last year’s recipient of the annual residency programme award run by Wexford Arts Centre, in partnership with Cow House Studios, was Canadian artist Julie Lequin. Her 10-week residency at the studios is followed by an Arts Centre exhibition.
Lequin’s show consists of a new performance video installation – a split- screen, four-channel projection – together with drawings from an ongoing series called Top 30. The video derives from conversations with three individuals personally close to her. Lequin re-enacts vocal exchanges on “how she should manage her everyday life and art career”. The drawings relate to turning 30, and each one is an anecdotal story encapsulating one year of her life.
It's also well worth seeing Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Conor O'Leary's photographs of the Irish Traveller community in the centre's first-rate D'Lush Café (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm Jan 11-May 15). The Wexford-born photographer's images, which feature a small group of Travellers living close to New Ross, are quite out of the rut and challenge preconceptions.
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Lost Souls, Pioneers and Long-Distance TravellersMark Carmody's photographs of the shorebirds of Ireland. Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co Cork Until Jan 24 021-4813790
