Award-winning gallery calls on Arts Council for funding

THE funding which supported establishment of the award-winning Glucksman Gallery is nearing an end and management have called for the Arts Council to give them the much-needed finance essential to the maintenance of its international reputation.

The 12 million art gallery, opened in University College Cork in 2004, is coming to the end of the five-year funding period which began at the start of its two-year construction phase.

At its official opening the then college president, Professor Gerry Wrixon, said it would have to secure its own financing when the private funding which brought it to fruition ran out.