Love is all you need as exhibition of Crawford work opens in Skibbereen

The Cork city gallery may be closed, but Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is hosting some of the best pieces in its collection in an exhibition entitled Grá

Toma McCullim, second from right, with Crawford Art Gallery staff Dyane Hanrahan, Mary McCarthy,  and Michael Waldron at the opening of the Grá exhibition at Uillinn in Skibbereen for the launch of Grá. Picture: Emma Jervis 

Love in all its guises is the subject of Grá, the new exhibition at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen. It features 50 works selected from the National Collection of the Crawford Art Gallery by the LGBTQI+ elder artists’ collective Salt & Pepper, along with 30 works of their own.

“We had the choice of 4000 objects in the Crawford Collection, and we just went giddy,” says artist and activist Toma McCullim, who facilitated the project with the support of Uillinn director Ann Davoren and the Crawford’s Curator of Collections & Special Projects Michael Waldron.