Artist Brianna Hurley will lead a drawing and painting session, focused on themes of ‘place’. This is open to all, from beginners upwards. The workshop coincides with the exhibition Near Faraway Places, a two-person exhibition in the McKenna Gallery by Brianna Hurley and Thomas Barron exploring the idea of ‘places’ as being both close and distant, familiar and unfamiliar, clear and indecipherable.
Both artists are members of the inclusive KCAT studio Kilkenny. www.kcat.ie

Duration 90 mins

Main image: The Planet of Castallia. Brianna Hurley. 2021

About the Artist
Brianna Hurley has shown widely, including at Visual Carlow and Farmleigh House Galleries Dublin and has work in the National Collection at the Crawford Gallery Cork. She combines acrylic paint, pencil and acrylic marker to depict scenarios of peace and conflict on the beautiful imagined planet of Castalia, with its inhabitants often surrounded by lush natural environments with blue flowing rivers and seas, the rich red earth of a hot climate, and beautiful trees frequently coated in masses of white buds.