A great day was had by all!

A big thank you to all who attended our 2010 Art Auction at Westwood House Hotel on Sunday, 18th April. The auction was a great success raising significant funds for our school. Here are some photos from the day:

Becca Losh

Mags Corcoran and Nick Plews

Artist Patricia Hehir

David and Agnes Warren and Emily Belfrage

Brona and Rian McNeill

More Photos from the Art Auction

Meabh, Marylou and Frank Clancy

Thanks to all our sponsors!

We would like to take the opportunity to thank the following for their support and help:

Shane Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Auctioneers, Galway www.fitzgeraldauctioneers.com
David Kelly, Westwood House Hotel www.westwoodhousehotel.com
The Connacht Tribune www.galwaynews.ie
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Cregal Art, Galway www.cregalart.ie
Treat Cafe, Claregalway www.treatcafe.ie
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Lynda Cookson www.lyndacookson.com
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Supervalu Hughes's, Claregalway www.supervalu.ie
The Arches, Claregalway www.thearcheshotel.ie
Gerry Campbell, AC Accounting Services
Abbey Florists, Claregalway
The Framemaker, Cross St., Galway
The Sanctuary, Claregalway
Frank Clancy
Mike McCann
Midie Corcoran
Helena Dixon-Cafolla
Dolores Lyne
Emer Gilpin
Roisin McManus

Lidia De Lange

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Artist: Lidia De Lange
Title: Blue Cow
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Lidia De Lange was born in Kroonstad, South Africa and studied painting, printmaking and jewellery design at the Pretoria Technicon, graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art in 1989. She has been living in Galway since 1991 and has participated in various exhibitions in Galway, Dublin, Kerry, Antrim and the USA. She was a member of Artspace from 1995 to 2004 and has been involved in several artists' cooperatives.

Leonie King

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Artist: Leonie King
Title: Scattered Remnants
Medium: High relief etching

Leonie King has been living and working on the Western seaboard for the past 25 years. She went to the London College of Print and the Central School of Art and Design. She lectured in printmaking in the Regional Technical Art College Galway, then went on to establish the Spanish Arch Print Studios and Gallery, where artists could both practice and exhibit. She was a founder member of "Western Artists", a major show in the Galway Arts Festival and subsequently "Impressions" an open submission show of national repute. King is part of Akin, a group of artists living long-term on the west coast of Ireland.

Patricia Hehir

Artist: Patricia Hehir
Title: Connemara Landscape
Medium: Oil on canvas

Patricia Hehis lives in Renmore with her husband and two grown-up children. A native of Tuam, Patricia has been painting for over 40 years and her work is in many private collections throughout Ireland. She studied Art and Design at GMIT and Paintbox Studios. She paints in oils, watercolours, acrylics and pastels.

Dagmar Drabent

Artist: Dagmar Drabent
Title: Reflections on Galway Bay
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Dagmar Drabent studied History of Art at Universitat Hamburg, and also studied with the artist Herbert Lerche. Her work is in the Galway City Council Collection, Art Collection of National University Galway, private collections in Ireland, UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA.

• Member of Visual Artists Ireland.
• Member of National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
• Art Flight Award - The Arts Council
• Arts Grant - Arts Office, Galway Corporation

For more information see www.dagmardrabent.com

Aideen Barry

Artist: Aideen Barry
Title: Futility of Conveying Emotion
Medium: Pen and Ink Framed Drawing



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Title: Ventriloquized Bodies
Medium: Pen and Ink Framed Drawing

For more information see http://www.aideenbarry.com/

Sacha Hutchinson

Artist: Sacha Hutchinson

Titles: Brandon Bay, Kerry

Galway Bay (SOLD)

Sacha Hutchinson is a Galway-based medical consultant who is originally from Dublin. Already an accomplished artist, Sacha is in her final year, studying Fine Art at GMIT.

Jean Purtill

Artist: Jean Purtill
Title: Snow Bear
Medium: Oil on board

Jean Purtill is a Galway based artist. Her work is an exploration of an alternate way of seeing. Her last exhibition was during the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway in 2009, with Laura Brennan and Gary Coyle. She is currently working towards a solo exhibition.

Roisin Coyle

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Artist: Roisin Coyle

Title: Shadow Theatre

Medium: Monotype and watercolour

'My practice is narrative and explores memory, solitary experience and the individual's understanding in environmental space. In my practice I create multi-sensory, interactive, site -specific installations in which the spectator becomes fully immersed in their own experiential sphere. I am interested in the way the viewer navigates through a space in their own particular way and how this can evoke emotions and unlock memories within the psyche, thus enticing the viewer to become a participant as opposed to an audience. I'm also intrigued by spatial awareness and the overwhelming feeling of a space being too large. I often use humour and a playful element to invite the spectator to experience my installations drawing on anthropology, folklore, theatrical experience and the gothic.

I have been researching the theatrical narrative found in grottoes, altars and Mexican retablos and how these capture and freeze memories and moments in time. I'm interested in combining this form with kinetics, forming a tactile experience. The more interactive a piece is, the more it becomes the spectator's sensual experience. Through research I've also been drawn to the work of William Kentridge and Calder's Miniature Circus and Teatro de los Sentidos, all of whom have had a huge influence on my work. I employ mediums of monoprint, drawing, sound, light (or lack of) in my installations and work with composers, animators and writers/poets to enhance the work. I find collaboration pushes the boundaries of my practice and adds an interesting and inspiring new dimension to my work process.

for more information see http://www.roisincoyle.com/

Philip Lindey

Artist: Philip Lindey
Title: The Interventionist God

Philip Lindey is based in Galway. He graduated from the National College of Art, Dublin in 1992. In 1997 he put together a body of work for his solo show in the Galway Arts Centre. In 1998 he began his Master of Fine Arts Degree. After graduating he had a successful solo exhibition in Belfast. His portraits are clearly not accurate representations of particular individuals, yet they capture the spirit, the essence of the person portrayed, leaving the viewer with a sense of having encountered these colourful characters in every day life.

Isabelle Gaborit

Artist: Isabelle Gaborit
Title: Deeper than you think
Medium: Mixed media on canvas

In my work I am dealing with fragments of memory and isolated thoughts like a personal jigsaw. The end effect plays on different layers, planes or levels. The eye of the viewer is drawn into the painting, into details, floating, drifting across the ethereal outlines of fragments of a story. Structures build on top of one another in layers, creating veils. I mainly explore the concept of fragmentation of time over one another, and my body of work is an attempt to remember and look underneath, to weave these pieces together, in other words, to unwrap the numerous layers and to offer the viewer a space in between, a void in the midst of reality and memory.
I use the layering of mixed media, collage and paint to explore a personal lore, a viewable expression of the many facets of my thoughts. I combine and overlap found objects and drawings I created, leaving them exposed but also concealed within the work.
Veils become translucent and reveal hints of past forms, layers of textured strucures and colour.
Each drawing is fragmented and isolated like a lost memory. Remaining are fragments, incomplete, unfinished, broken or torn off, the extant scrap of what was once familiar.
For more information see www.artspacegalway.com.

Catherine O'Leanachain

Artist: Catherine O'Leanachain
Title: Winter Tracks
Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Catherine moved to Galway in 1978. She graduated in History of Art and Archeology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, in 1969 , and studied Architecture at l'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, graduating as an architect D.P.L.G. in 1978.

She is a founder member of Artspace Studios where she is currently chairperson. She was WAAG, Western Representative in the 1990's and has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad. She co-ordinated the Artspace International Exchange programmes from 1996 to 2000.

For more information see www.artspacegalway.com.