{"id":18411,"date":"2020-03-12T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=18411"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:13:10","slug":"desmond-kinney-exhibition-opens-at-the-market-place-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/desmond-kinney-exhibition-opens-at-the-market-place-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Kinney Exhibition Opens at the Market Place Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Market Place Theatre &amp; Arts Centre in Armagh is hosting Desmond Kinney\u2019s exhibition, BUILE SHUIBHNE \u2018SWEENEY ASTRAY\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/press-1-793x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18412\" width=\"397\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Ireland born international artist\nDesmond Kinney is best known for his revival of the technique of working with\nmosaics, through various large-scale murals and public art works mainly focused\non Irish myths and legends. In the 1980\u2019s he started illustrated calligraphy,\nworking on Seamus Heaney\u2019s translation Sweeney Astray, creating paintings in\nthe medium of watercolour. The Home of Saint Patrick Festival 2020 and The\nMarket Place Gallery are delighted to exhibit sixteen of Kinney\u2019s stunning illustrations\nwhich have never been exhibited publically before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buile Shuibhne, in English \u2018The Madness of\nSweeney\u2019 is an old Irish myth immortalised in verse composed during the 12th\nCentury. The poem inspired many writers, including Seamus Heaney, who made his\nown translation of it, published in 1984. Heaney\u2019s friend, artist Desmond\nKinney, enamoured by the work, turned it into a series of watercolours\nfeaturing his personalised calligraphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desmond Kinney also transformed the Buile\nShuibhne into a large mosaic frieze which is situated at the University of\nLimerick. The mosaic made in Venetian vitrious glass features quotations from\nSeamus Heaney\u2019s text. The poet and the painter remained lifelong friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep up-to-date with the latest news at\nthe Market Place Theatre, you can follow us on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh\">www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh<\/a>)\nand Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh\">www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh<\/a>)\nwhere you will find all the latest information, special offers and video\npreviews.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Market Place Theatre &amp; Arts Centre in Armagh is hosting Desmond Kinney\u2019s exhibition, BUILE SHUIBHNE \u2018SWEENEY ASTRAY\u2019. Northern Ireland born international artist Desmond Kinney is best known for his revival of the technique of working with mosaics, through various large-scale murals and public art works mainly focused on Irish myths and legends. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/desmond-kinney-exhibition-opens-at-the-market-place-theatre\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18413,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions\/18413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}