"Second Time Around - The Hubcap as Art" , Global Group Collaborative Exhibition, Museum of Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA.

Exciting to receive-

".Dear Landfillart Artist:

Today, World Environment Day of the United Nations—an annual celebration to encourage positive environmental action—is the perfect time to inform you that the artwork you created and donated to the Landfillart Project will be included in the exhibition Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art.

The exhibition will open September 7, 2014, at The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV), in Winchester, Virginia, USA, and be on exhibit through March 1, 2015.

Yours is one of 287 objects selected out of more than 1,000 artworks now in the Landfillart Collection.

The exhibition presents work from artists in every U.S. state and 35 other countries.

The dense, visually exciting installation has a strong environmental message and will incorporate WASTE NOT from the Green Revolution “eco-zibit,” which is based on an exhibition originally created by the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, and its Black Creativity Council and made available by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. "

from Project Manager Ken Marquis and Dana Hand Evans,Director of the Museum of the Shenandoagh Valley. (5/6/14)

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One of the most exciting things for me as an artist is that I can take part in exhibitions I will never attend in person with artists I will never meet, and yet feel part of the whole process.

This was one of those exciting exhibitions.

Artists all over the world were invited to find an old used hubcap and make a piece of art from it.

The response to this call out in support of the environment was generous and enthusiastic.

I was thrilled that one of my paper sculptures "Time to Fly", which I donated to the exciting, worldwide project landfillart.org was included in this Exhibition of recycled hubcaps starting September 2014 in The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV), in Winchester, Virginia, USA.

I remember carefully parcelling it up in a box, and sending it across the Atlantic and wishing it well !!

"Time to Fly - Paper Sculpture on Hubcap"

"Sense of Place" Art Exhibition in Tallaght University Hospital Dublin. June - September 2019.

Some weeks ago, I was honoured to be asked to prepare a hashtag body of artworks for hashtag exhibition by the family of the late Maeve Doyle. Maeve left a vast hashtag collection of hashtag paintings, hashtag drawings and hashtag poems, expressing a wish that her hashtag artworks be exhibited further afield. " Meeting of the Waters in Avoca". Watercolour. 30cms x 20cms Born in 1958 to a German refugee mother and an Irish father, Maeve was the youngest of their four children. Most of her life was spent living along the coastline of south Dublin, from which she derived much of her inspiration. She studied Fine Art Painting in IADT, known then in the 70’s as Eblana Avenue. She was a gentle and sensitive young woman, who was a true working artist expressing herself in a free and fluid manner through her several media. I was delighted to find the perfect hashtag art venue for her work in hashtag # tallaghtuniversityhospital , which is the National Cent

Outdoor Exhibition in MISA courtyard, St James Hospital Dublin. May - September 2017.

Mountpleasant Mural community project in MISA courtyard, St James Hospital Dublin. May - September 2017 . These paintings on view in the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) courtyard in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8 are from the Mountpleasant Mural Project, a very successful community outdoor arts endeavor, which was one of the events of the Ranelagh Arts Festival 2013. Members of the public in Ranelagh were invited to add their brushstrokes and signatures, to these paintings, which celebrate local areas and events. This project was one of many integrative community art events that took place in parks, in schools and on the streets in Ranelagh during the festival. As an artist with a special interest in bringing art into everyday communities, I was excited to be approached by Roisin Nevin,Creative Life Co-ordinator at MISA and asked to select and prepare a collection of artpieces for a show in the courtyard in MISA. These artpie

"Moynalty Community Outdoor Art Exhibition " EPIC Award nomination Ireland and British Isles.

Post- script: In 2013, Moynalty won the National Tidy Towns award. The following community arts project was mentioned on the adjudicators report, and we like to think that the community energy involved in this outdoor art exhibition contributed in some small way towards that award! http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/moynalty-co-meath-named-ireland-s-tidiest-town-1.1521107 Left to right- Helen Farrell, John O Brien, Heather Buchanan, Catherine Mc Cormack, Deirdre Gilsenan. Weighed down by the gloom of a long winter in 2012, our thoughts went to dreaming of longer days when leaf buds would form on trees, birds would start to look for materials with which to build their nests and a certain light would appear in our daylight hours. A notion formed of creating outdoor artpieces alongside nature, as she created the following season. A brave or foolish notion ? I wasn't sure , but it didn't go away. It became stronger, and we began to consider

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