Birr Theatre & Arts Centre

Offaly's Centre For The Arts



Suas An Staighre



Vida Pain February Roscommon based artist, Vida Pain, is a BA Hons Degree graduate from GMIT. Her work is a collection of cropped urban and abandoned mechanical objects that are sources from an exploration of local towns and villages. Dramatic angles of facades, irrelevant to their environment, often exaggerated in scale and colour. The work, although similar in theme, present an array of structure and formal composition. Vida’s work was the RDS Judges choice of excellence for touring show in 2009 and Prize winner at the Boyle Arts Festival in 2009. In 2011, Vida has been selected for RHA Annual Show, invited artist during Wexfords Opera Festival and for three other solo exhibitions over 2011/12 - Carnegie Arts Centre, Galway University Hospital and The Market Place, Armagh. Also selected to show with two other artists in The Source Arts Centre, North Tipperary for 2012.
WILLIE REDMOND March Willie Redmond is a full time artist from Edenderry. He specializes in oils, acrylics and pastels using the bogs and waterways of Offaly for his inspiration. Willie has exhibition in national and international shows – EVA, National Portrait Exhibition, Devon Art Fair, Dublin Art Fair and Edinburgh Art Fair. Willie divides his canvas into panels of various weights, depicting mood, texture, movement, detail, compositing, lines and rhythms. The show is based on water sources and reflections, and the memory spaces these evoke.