Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
6 July – 7 September 2024
Embracing Vision marks the centenary of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland (FNCI). This exhibition showcases works gifted to the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection by the FNCI since the Collection’s inception in 1946.
The exhibition is organised by a curatorial research group in Highlanes Gallery, comprised of teachers from secondary and initial teacher education settings. In this, the fourth exhibition organised within this project, the group have selected from the works of the FNCI from the Collection, as well as other art works including a selection of filmed poems commissioned by Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann in partnership with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, IMMA , ANU, Landmark and MoLI, and works by contemporary visual artists.
