Harvest time exhibition to open this weekend in Thurles

Flail is a new body of work from Artist Debbie Godsell which encompasses a peripatetic culture clash of history, tradition, custom and ethno-cultural notions as seen through the lens of the harvest.

Harvest time in Ireland is an annual event that has both divided and bound communities across all aspects of life, for many centuries.

Famine, war, religious tensions, social divisions, providentialist belief, love and folklore are all bound up in the complex rituals and labours related to the gathering in of grain.

The exhibition augments work created by Godsell in 2023, which re-evaluated the silences in the historiography of the collecting of Protestant stories of custom and belief in southern Irish museums and archives, mainly relating to the custom of the harvest thanksgiving, which itself has rich and complex origins.

Through an eclectic fusion of film, installation, printmaking, and digital photography Godsell re-evaluates our current understanding of identity construction, nationality, and belonging within a multicultural contemporary Ireland.

Flail creates a vital space for dialogue in relation to a minority community and its inherent historical tensions and entanglements.

The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure with texts by author and art critic  Cristín Leach and author and academic Deirdre Nuttall and was designed by Stuart Coughlan.

Debbie Godsell graduated with a Masters in Fine Art Research in 2002 from Crawford College of Art.

Since then, she has been working full-time as an artist and an art educator, specialising in printmaking.

Website:www.debbiegod sell.com

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, September 14 – Saturday, October 19

Gallery Times: Tuesday to Friday; 10am to 5pm

Saturday; 2pm to 5pm

More Info available online at www.thesourceartscentre. ie. Exhibition Opening 2pm Saturday, September 14.

Free to Attend