What I Like To Draw
A blog post and some photos about the What I Want to Draw exhibition that ran from 15 of January to 4 of February
Greg Murray | A Gregarious Congregation
I have lived in Dublin all my life and I was brought up a Catholic. As with most 'Catholics' of my generation Sunday mass was something we attended for the sake of our parents and also as a kind of social with friends. My parish church was Gardiner Street and at 11 o'clock on Sunday there was a singing mass which was popular with lots of local teenagers. But of course at a certain age mass became a chore, my parents themselves eased up on the church going and for a time there was a bit of a gap left in my Sunday socials.
Signal Artists| Elements
Up to now the artist’s works were a fusion of classically influenced painting juxtaposing with an almost naïve narrative type painting. Poetic, lyrical, often with an ethereal sense of pathos, the paintings often had a mystical quality about them. Post-modernistic style icons, angels, spirits, alongside lyrical paintings reminded the artist of being on a journey where she watched the old solemn religious art and lightly told a tale along the way!!
Greg Murray | Drawings by Bray Primary School Students’
This exhibition is a collaboration of work by students from two schools in Bray, St. Philomena’s (Ravenswell) located on the North side of Bray, and St. Andrews on Bray South side. Both schools are working with art teacher Greg Murray, of Signal Art Centre, to bring this rather large body of work together. Greg has been teaching drawing techniques to the 3rd, 4th and 5th class students at Ravenswell for a number of years through the School Completion Programme and teaching 4th, 5th and 6th class students at St. Andrews through the PTA.