WIT staff to display artwork in local hospital
Darkness and Light is an exhibition of collective work by the WIT staff which opens at the Ardkeen hospital on Thursday.
The exhibition features drawings, paintings and photography and sculpture.
The title of the exhibition derives from the words people use to equate their experience of illness as darkness and of recovery as light, says Sheila Naughton of WIT.
“Participants were invited to respond to the theme in this context. A rationale accompanies the work of each exhibitor, explaining their particular interpretation of the theme,” she explained.
The artists exhibiting are: Michael Beirne; Gerard Casey; Susan Connolly; Pat Cunningham; Fiona Dowling; Ben Reilly; Joy Rooney; Tony Ryan; Lorenzo Tonti; Mary-Ruth Walsh; Mairin Grant; Joe Hunt; Reiltin Murphy; Sheila Naughton; John O’Connor; and Martin Quigley.
The exhibition will run until November 5 at the exhibition space in Waterford Regional Hospital. A sales catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is one of Ireland’s leading arts and health programmes.
Based in Waterford Regional Hospital, WHAT supports healthcare environments and the wider community by providing multi-disciplinary arts experiences.
The work of WHAT is founded upon the tenet that the arts make a valuable contribution to the well-being and vitality of our society. Interaction with the arts, it argues, stimulates an individual’s sense of identity and creativity, which can play a role in recovery.
WHAT has developed the first dedicated Centre for Arts and Health in the grounds of Waterford Regional Hospital, which enables it to bridge its work between the hospital setting and wider community. The organisation tries to bring the arts beyond conventional boundaries and into new areas whereby art and artists can thrive in environments outside mainstream venues.
