Crawford Supported Studios: Cork exhibition shows work of artists with disabilities

This Is Ireland is the title of the exhibition currently showing at the LHQ Gallery on the Carrigrohane Road

Tom O'Sullivan at work in the Crawford Supported Studio. Picture: Roísín O'Sullivan 

Identity, culture and storytelling are the themes of This Is Ireland, the new exhibition at Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery on the Carrigrohane Road. It features the work of 16 artists with disabilities, all of whom are involved with Crawford Supported Studio, a partnership between Crawford Art Gallery and MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, with support from Cork City Council.

The Supported Studio group convenes twice a week at the MTU building on the Grand Parade. “Our aim is to meet the artists where they’re at,” says Emma Klemencic, who leads the project, “and lend them encouragement in making their artwork.”