Art Under Fire: Bantry exhibition shows work of Palestinian artists 

'Here in Gaza, it has been a challenge to get art supplies we’ve had to be resourceful'

Details from two of the images on display in Bantry as part of the Palestinian art exhibition.

To be a Palestinian in the diaspora today is to miss one’s home, one's family members left behind, and to simultaneously enjoy the privilege of distance while also mourn for a place that’s being hurt. It, too, is to possess a luxury that is missing from the land itself: that of choice.

A new exhibition set in Bantry, Co Cork, attempts to depict what this tension does to a person, with work full of sharp contrasts –– sorrow, light; the past, the present ––reminding the viewer of the ongoing nature of Palestinian activism, and indeed that it wasn’t always like this.