Michael Quane and Johanna Connor: Cork husband and wife artists unite for joint exhibition

Michael Quane and Johanna Connor are showing their very different art pieces at the Lavit in Cork

Michael Quane and Johanna Connor at the Lavit in Cork. 

The fact that Michael Quane and Johanna Connor work in different, but complementary, media is reflected in the title of their new exhibition at the Lavit Gallery in Cork. Pencil – Paper – Chisel – Stone features Connor’s pencil drawings of objects and landscapes alongside Quane’s limestone and marble sculptures of people, beasts and inflatables.

The two are not just collaborators, they are also a couple, having connected during the Covid pandemic. “We were following each other on Instagram for a while,” says Connor.