Ballina Arts Centre Events

Events for 30 May 2022

15:00

T O U C H A B L E: Caren Van Herwaarden exhibition

T O U C H A B L E: Caren Van Herwaarden 14th May – 25th June Official Opening: Saturday 14th May, 3pm Caren van Herwaarden makes watercolors, drawings, collages and sculptures. In her work she is looking for the meaning of fellow - humanity, physicality, suffering and eroticism. This leads to works that find strength in vulnerability, softness in mercilessness and comfort in dejection. Human or horse: she is concerned with the naked being, without facade or embellishment. In conflict situations where there is no control and the world is no longer socially engineered, we are dependent on others. ...

11:00

Bealtaine: Introduction to Printmaking with Marianne Heemskerk workshop

Printmaking Workshop for older people as part of the Bealtaine Festival This workshop will introduce printmaking to older people. Participants will – under the guidance of Marianne Heemskerk – be working with techniques of drypoint and carborundum on aluminium plates, and monoprinting; working from their own designs; and experimenting with print techniques and colour. No previous experience required. Marianne Heemskerk is a locally-based visual artist. Originally from Holland, Marianne has been living in Ireland for many years and has extensive experience in the practice and teaching of printmaking. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and her work is in a ...