Galway Exhibition

The next exhibition opens at the Bold Art Gallery St. Augustine St., Galway at 6pm on July 15th. Everybody is welcome and the show will be opened by the effervescent Ms. Sharon Shannon.

Exhibition news

The new work for 2008 is ready and will be showing in the following venues:
June 5th opening at Gallery Zozimus, Francis St. Dublin www.galleryzozimus.ie
This is a group exhibition with Kevin McSherry and Fintan Taite and will be opened by Sam Smyth.

July 15th Bold Art Gallery Galway during the Galway Arts Festival www.boldartgallery.com
July 26th Hawk`s Well Theatre Sligo during the Yeats Summer School www.hawkswell.com
August 5th Mill Theatre Dundrum Town Centre Dublin www.milltheatre.com
To preview or buy prints please visit www.anniewest.com/shop.php

Yeats in Love II : The wrath of Gonne

I`m struggling. I know I have to go back to the Yeats thing. There`s mountains of other stuff to play with...
Maybe I`ll do something on the old Steinach-impotence-cure-second-puberty-elephant-testicles thing for a while.
See what comes up...
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Got that Granuaile thing finished

Finally. Couldn`t decide whether they would have been drinking shots or beer.. held me up for ages. Decided on the beer in the end.

Yeats in Love

"Yeats in Love" opens at the 101 Talbot, Dublin. A series of limited edition prints depicting Yeats as a nerdy, whiny, lovesick poet who allegedly proposed to Maud Gonne at least four times before throwing in the towel and waiting until her daughter was old enough to try for. Eeeeu.
Senator David Norris was the guest of honour and delivered a ripping speech, confirming nearly all of the not very charitable opinions I have had about Yeats, Lissadell and all of it. It is reassuring to know that it is unlikely I will be escorted to the boundary of Sligo County with my backside on fire for daring to show Yeats in this way. Ambassador Tom Foley attended complete with "a bit of Security"; my son Bob rushed over to me in the middle of proceedings and announced "Mum! There`s guys outside packin`heat!". Just what you need really at an exhibition opening.
The exhibition later in the Summer moved Northwest to Sligo where Michael D. Higgins TD delivered another cracking opening speech and left many students of the Yeats Summer School in stitches; quite an achievement.
I still wonder about the whole Yeats and Sligo thing: he wasn`t born here, he didn`t live here... and we all know he isn`t buried here. The skinny around Drumcliffe at the burial was that it was just some poor French soldier.