Grace Roberts - mixed media artist

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A photographic narrative : the journey of an unmarried mother in 1950s Ireland

January 26, 2012

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Friarsgate Gallery, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick "Content in the Hum" solo exhibition - April 2015

My next exhibition, 'Content in the Hum' will open on Thursday 2nd of April in Friarsgate Theatre & Gallery in Kilmallock at 7.30pm and will continue for the month of April. All are welcome...there will be wine!!! The ‘hum’ refers to media noise...par ticulary around the ideal body image. We all need to find a place where we are comfortable and can live in harmony with ourselves and others.

A Sense of Self - Exhibition in The Grove Nov 2014

A Sense of Self - solo exhibition of oil paintings in The Grove, Cecil Street in Limerick city November/December 2014. This reflected on how we dress and present ourselves to the world and how it says so much about how we perceive ourselves and want to be perceived by others.

The Hunt Museum “Visible Reminders of Invisible Light” March 2019

March 2019 “Visible Reminders of Invisible Light” A group of seventeen invited contemporary artists at The Hunt Museum in Limerick City. Mixed media Finished in beeswax 20 x 20 cm The inspiration for my artwork is the Hunt family itself. The family is featured throughout the museum and reminds me of my own upbringing. My mother, Sarah Roberts, was an avid collector and had a shop on Mallow Street, The Treasure Chest. Our house was always full to over?owing with collections of antiques - toby jugs being a favourite - as well as oil lamps, paintings, willow-pattern plates, clocks, Staffordshire greyhounds, green glass and more. I feel a certain af?nity with the family involved in this amazing collection. The exhibition explores personal responses to ‘Family’ within a contemporary context, primarily using the collections of the Hunt Museum and Limerick Museum as a source of inspiration.

A photographic narrative : the journey of an unmarried mother in 1950s Ireland

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