Past Exhibitions

• LCGA: 28th Annual Open ev+a, Limerick, Ireland, March 13th to May 23rd
• LCGA: Tina O'Connell - January 16th - February 25th 2004
• LCGA: Tjibbe Hooghiemstra - Night Flight - January 16th - February 25th 2004
• LCGA: Helena Gorey - November 7th - December 23rd 2003
• LCGA: Jill Dennis - 'A Floater in My Shadow'
• LCGA: Iontas
• LCGA: Cuisle Poetry festival - 16th-18th October 2003
• LCGA: Lindsay Seers: "You said that without moving your lips"
• LCGA: Of Colour in Craft
• LCGA: Caroline McCarthy - Promise - July 18th - August 24th 2003
• LCGA: McCullough Mulvin Architects - Work 1993 - 2003 - July 18th - August 24th 2003
• LCGA: Michael McLoughlin - Bypass, Shared Designs - July 18th to 31st August 2003
• LCGA: Brian Kennedy - Aphrodite June 11th - July 11th 2003
• LCGA: Denis Farrell - Faith - June 11th - July 11th 2003
• LCGA: 27th Annual Open ev+a, Limerick, Ireland, March 8th to June 1st
• LCGA: Helen O'Leary - The way things are 2000-2002
• LCGA: Ambit by Samuel Walsh
• LCGA: Vivienne Dick, Des Farrell, Richard Slade
• LCGA: Irish Patchwork Society 2002, Celebrating 21 Years Of Traditional & Contemporary Quilts
• LCGA: Jack Donovan - Retrospective Paintings 1959-2004
• LCGA: Tom Fitzgerald - The Ministry of Dust Drawings, Sculpture and Installations
• LCGA: Amy O'Riordan - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Shoot! At The Artist - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Ardent Shelters - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Corpus - women artists and embodiment - 4th June - 15 July 2004
• LCGA: reCollections - Lady of Lourdes Active Group - 4th June - 15 July 2004

The Divine Comedy
Samuel Walsh

November 2nd – December 21st 2007

Limerick City Gallery of Art is delighted to present a large scale exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Walsh. This exhibition shows in its entirety an ambitious body of work based on Dante Aligheri’s masterwork The Divine Comedy.

This epic series, begun in Pont-Aven in France in 2002, mirrors Dante’s journey of three phases – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Walsh’s interpretation of the first book of The Divine Comedy; The Inferno, comprises 34 paintings relating to the book’s 34 Cantos, The Purgatorio inspired seven Cornice paintings, each relating to the journey that Dante and Virgil make as they ascend Purgatory and visit the seven cornices that parallel the seven deadly sins. The series is completed by one large, multi-part painting based on the Paradiso, the third and final book of the Divine Comedy, where Dante visits Paradise.

This series, which has grown from a fascination with Dante’s Inferno, was initially due to follow Walsh’s previous work practice and take abstract form. Feeling his language of expression, in the form of abstraction, did not lend itself to compose symbolic ideas of things and people; Walsh adopted a new bold representational approach to this body of work.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full catalogue publication.