Time, Tide and the Memory of the House

Memory of the House 

Exhibition of paintings by Hughie O’Donoghue 

The Hunt Museum, Limerick 

Free admission 

Hughie O’Donoghue was born in 1953 in Manchester, England. His mother was born in the Gaeltacht of County Mayo in Ireland and O’Donoghue spent much of his childhood here, learning traditional stories and experiencing the landscape around his mother’s family home.

This new exhibition of paintings by Hughie O’Donoghue, Memory of the House,  take as their subject matter abandoned homes, situated in the landscape of Mayo where he grew up, and which has personal significance or resonance. The exhibition shows the artist looking at buildings as places of memory in a semi abstract way, combining it with rich expressionist colours and texture.

The set of images are a counterpoint to the poet Simon Armitage’s translation of Virgil’s Georgics, entitled Still, and are a rumination on a series of abandoned houses in Erris.

The exhibition will feature paintings on wood panels that have been made in the manner of note book pages, incorporating drone photography of the buildings and hand written notes, gleaned from the 1911 census, about the people who lived in these houses