Aisling Roche on art inspired by swimming: 'I swim in Lough Ine all through the year'
Aisling Roche coming out of the water in Baltimore after swimming from Sherkin Island; and some of her works - Urchin 3 (top-right) and Whorl (bottom-right)
, Aisling Roche’s exhibition of new work at the Grilse Gallery in Killorglin, Co Kerry, is inspired by her love of swimming.
Roche traces her interest to her childhood holidays in Co Cork. “I grew up in Dublin, but we went to our summer house in Myrtleville from June to August every year,” she says. “My aunt, Mary Porteous, owned Bunnyconnellan restaurant, and my grandmother lived there too. That was where I learned to swim, in the sea, and sea-swimming has been part of my life ever since. We swam every day at Myrtleville; even when it was raining, my mother used to bring us to the beach because she couldn’t bear to have us in the house all the time.”
