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TWENTY-ONE local artists will descend on Ennistymon next week in preparation for the third annual Trading Spaces Exhibition. The ex- hibition takes the innovative step of using spaces in the town’s famed shop fronts as exhibition spaces. This show crosses all genres from photography and sculpture to film projections and performance pieces. “I’m really excited about this year’s show. I think that it will be the best yet in terms of variety and energy,” said co-organiser Rob Henderson. “People are looking at the shop fronts anyway – it’s signposted on the way into Ennistymon and on count- less postcards sent all over the world.
It’s part of Ennistymon. So it makes a perfect place for an exhibition.
“It’s also about our own personal connection to the town. Like for my- self, Pll be using the window in Ha- ran’s pub and I remember spending hour after hour listening to singing in Haran’s pub.”
In this years Trading Spaces artists are being encouraged to tailor their work to be a real part of the shop front it is being housed in.
“When we did it the first year we had such a short amount of time that we didn’t encourage people to do site specific works or installations. But since then we have been looking at creating more site specific works – that works alongside the people in the place to the history of the site,”
said co-organiser Jackie Askew.
“It comes with a brief – you have to work with the shopkeeper and in the space provided so the art really evolves in the space.
“It can be a bit last minute – the artists will have the ideas but you can never be sure what is going to happen until you start actually doing it in the window.
“Tt’s important to recognise all the shopkeepers who give up their space for the exhibition – without them it just wouldn’t be possible.”
The artists taking part in this year’s Trading Spaces are; Jackie Askew (Dalys), Marie Connole (Gilnas Optometrist), Maeve Collins (The Square), Mary Fahy (Noinins), Sarah Fuller, Maria Kerin and Vanessa Earl
Maguire (TBC), Tabatha Gravener (The Medical Centre), Rob Hend- erson (Haran’s Pub), Lynne Hoare (TBC), Des McLoughlin (Old Fit- Zpatrick’s), Kevin Mulligan (Cool- eys), Josie O’Connor (Chinese Take Away), Fiona O’Dwyer (TBC), Ash- ley O’Neal (TBC), Judy O’Sullivan (The Courthouse Studios), Mary Queally (TBC), Patsy Ricks (Cool- eys), Fergus Tighe (Eugenes/Cool- eys), Anne Vaughan (TBC) and Vin- cent Wall (TBC).
Trading Spaces will run from July 17 to 31.