Arts centre hosts embroidery exhibition

Nenagh Arts Centre is set to host ‘Notes from the Interior’, an art exhibition by the Galway-based artist, Gerri O’Brien. The exhibition, which features gorgeous, embroidered artworks, also contains extracts from the artist’s personal and working diaries that inform the work. The official launch of the exhibition will take place in the Nenagh Arts Centre, at 6pm on Friday, November 7.

Gerri O’Brien will also be holding a Meet the Artist session from 12 noon-2pm, on Saturday, November 8, in the Nenagh Arts Centre. This session will give you the wonderful opportunity to connect and discuss the thought-provoking exhibition with the artist herself.

‘Notes from the Interior’ sees O’Brien predominantly employing hand-stitch to explore pertinent issues relating to the human condition and socio-economic political subjects, including identity, disability, and the perception of women’s work.

Her work comments on the silent, repetitive and reparative essence of hand-stitch, where thinking and making merge seamlessly to generate new concepts for her practice. Recent work is informed y extracts from her diaries, where borrowed texts, meandering words and unedited, inner musings are documented.

Gerri O’Brien’s work has been selected for the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Exhibition, Dublin from 2021-2024. She was awarded the Alex Bradley Award in 2022.

The official launch will take place at 6pm on Friday, November 7 in the Nenagh Arts Centre, followed by Gerri O’Brien’s Meet the Artist session from 12 noon-2pm on Saturday, November 8. The work will be on display and free to view until November 29.