WALKING PERIPHERAL LINES
Fri 25 March – Sat 23 April
Droichead Arts Centre
This is the first solo exhibition by artist Rodney Thornton. Thorton lives and works in Drogheda. His drawings and paintings explore his and our surroundings and investigate the liminal spaces where urban meets suburban meets rural. His work is informed by his daily drawing practise which looks at the effects of time and of use on the built environment and landscape.
Thornton has a great commitment to drawing from life and to en plein air painting; recording and affording significance to the everyday, to really looking at and exploring where he lives; the bridges, street corners and shopping centres of Drogheda, the council estate at the edge of town, derelict farms, empty shipping containers, patchy development and abandoned spaces of the periphery, overlooked and forgotten places. His work moves from the urban to the suburban to the rural giving a sense of walking and exploring frequently but thoughtfully, observing one typology morphing into the other.
“Walking Peripheral Lines” in the media
CONNECTION
4th December – 29th January 2022
Droichead Arts Centre
CONNECTION 2, a Borrowed Ground Project saw each of the eleven Borrowed Ground visual artists create a piece of art. These beautiful bespoke posters, commissioned back in March 2020 when Droichead Arts Centre first closed its doors for lockdown, were part of a group exhibition in 2021. They were also accompanied by a billboard campaign on Georges Street and Mary Street in Drogheda.
Borrowed Ground artists include Vivienne Byrne, Nuala Early, Jillian Gott, Laura Gramzow, Brian Hegarty, Breda Marron, Kieran McNulty, Caoimhe Reynolds, Violet Shirran, Rodney Thornton, Dee Walsh.
