John Adams on going his own way in Cork's art world 

He hasn't always followed a conventional path, but a retrospective exhibition in Watergrasshill shows how artist John Adams has amassed an eclectic body of work 
John Adams on going his own way in Cork's art world 

John Adams currently has an exhibition at O'Mahony's in Watergrasshill, Co Cork. 

John Adams’s preoccupations are represented in his retrospective exhibition at O’Mahonys in Watergrasshill. 

The spacious walls of the pub/restaurant include paintings of turtles executed on corrugated metal, part of a series called Animals Matter. Drawing attention to extinction and the struggles that mammals and animals face, Adams says it’s appropriate that he has painted threatened creatures on material that was dumped as waste.

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