Mandscape exhibition for Oldcastle

The Ark, the children’s cultural centre in Dublin’s Temple Bar, will bring its celebrated ‘Mandscape’ exhibition to Oldcastle as part of the Laurence Gilson Summer School.  
Oldcastle Library will host the exhibition for four weeks from Thursday 9th May. 
Mandscape is a free curated exhibition of artworks which depicts landscapes where mankind is present, or where mankind has left his trace. 
It includes works by artists Brian Bourke, Brendan Neiland, Oliver Comerford, Joy Gerrard, Michael Durand, Clare Langan, Daniel de Chenu, Barbara Rae, Martin Gale, and Nickie Hayden.
 Some of the images are of the city, and others are of the natural environment. But all have been selected to engage children, and to act as a starting point for rich conversations and questions between children, and between children and adults.
 The exhibition will be launched in Oldcastle on Thursday 9th May by Cavan based artist, Michelle Boyle, who works and lives in Garryross.
She has a background in cultural anthropology and landscape archaeology.  Her work has been exhibited in the Bankside Gallery, London, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast. 
The public are welcome to the launch in Oldcastle library at 7pm.
The theme of this year’s Gilson Summer School is ‘Education for Imagination!’