Poetry & Art Workshop with Prosper Fingal 2024 Ceardlann Filíochta & Ealaíne i gcomhar le Prosper Fingal

Poetry & Art Workshop with Prosper Fingal 2024 Ceardlann Filíochta & Ealaíne i gcomhar le Prosper Fingal

Poet Tony Curtis and visual artist Nunce McAuley will work with service users of Prosper Fingal, to create artistic magic.

• Date and time: Saturday / Dé Sathairn 14/09/2024,  11am to 1pm
• Closed event for Prosper Fingal service users.

Nunce McAuley

Nunce is a visual artist working and living in Skerries with a studio in Ardgillan Castle. She has taught art to both children and adults in Mornington and Skerries. She has run many workshops including National Drawing Day at Ardgillan Castle, with Foróige at the Warehouse Balbriggan, Primary and Secondary pupils for Skerries Soundwaves and with older people in Donnybrook, Skerries and Loughshinny.

She had a solo Exhibition in the Mills, Skerries. She has been part of many group exhibitions including, Boathouse Painters in Skerries, Balbriggan, Malahide Castle and The Seamus Ennis Centre, the Winter Exhibition at Ardgillan Gallery 2023, the Summer Exhibition at Ardgillan Gallery 2024. the Lowry Exhibition in Balbriggan and The Road Exhibition in Balbriggan.

She works mainly in oil but also in watercolour, print, textile and batik. She is very inspired by my natural surroundings and a lot of her work is landscape, including plein air. She also loves still life painting and has recently started a series of small paintings of fruit and vegetables. She enjoys working on a small canvas and concentrating on detail.

She believes in the therapeutic effect of art. I think it is important to have integrity as an artist and to share and pass on my skills to the community where possible.

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. He was educated at Essex University and Trinity College Dublin. An award-winning poet, Curtis has published ten warmly received collections. His most recent titles are Folk (Arc Publications 201I); Pony with drawings and painting by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2013); Approximately in the Key of C (Arc Publications 2015) and This Flight Tonight with drawings by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2019). During Covid he published two small books with the photographer Liam Blake The Syncline: Allihies, Beara, West Cork & Between The Tides: twenty-four poems about twenty-four fascinating women poets (Real Ireland, 2021. He is currently working on a book about the Pacific Northwest sculptor Philip McCracken. Curtis has received the Irish National Poetry Prize and the Varuna Exchange Fellowship to Australia. In April 2018, Curtis was awarded the 22^nd Lawrence O’Shaughnessy prize for poetry from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has read his poetry all over the world to great acclaim. 

He is a member of Aosdána.

See the display of the fabulous artwork produced during this art and poetry workshop on your way to the Poetry and Music at the Monument – Filíocht agus Ceol – 2024 event at 3.30 pm today.