Well, it’s been a busy summer and we’re about to get things moving on the refurbishment. We still have some seats available (see last post) to be taken away, although there is about 20 of them spoken for. One young Artist who asked for some of the seats was a gentleman by the name of Richard Carr. He was a student in Wexford College of Art and I managed to get down to see that show in early summer. Richard’s work involved four booths each of which lighting was controlled by the one of the others in the midst of a squally white noise – very disorientating – but with the opportunity for much variation in his future work. I was happy to see his email and hope the seats will find an interesting home in one of his pieces in the future. You can get an idea about what he is at here:Richard Carr , Wexford Campus School of Art (IT Carlow), Art Profile – 4 New Sensations: a Channel 4 prize for Saatchi Online Art Students graduates (BM)
People often ask about the name ‘Banba’ – Banba Square being where the Arts Centre is located. Banba is one of the three mythological Irish Goddesses- daughters of Emmas of the Tuatha De Danann. The country of Ireland/Eireann is named after one of the other daughters – Éiriu - and the third girl was called Fodla. See here for more:
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