The cloths of heaven

Artist Patricia Looby’s love of fabrics and religious relics inspired her show at Christchurch, says Tina O’Sullivan

ARTIST Patricia Looby’s new show, Between a Thimble and a Nail, in Triskel Christchurch, Cork, is mixed-media, combining found objects with intricately hand-beaded fine fabrics.

A Tipperary woman, Looby attended the Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork in the late 1970s before returning to Fethard in 1993. Her art is exhibited internationally, and she teaches part-time.