Local artists exhibit in Navan

Currently running at the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan is the work of two young Meath artists who were joint winners of the Going Solo Award from the Meath County Council Arts Office. Going Solo is an exhibition of the work of Emily Bruton from Dunboyne and Carol O'Connor from Navan. The award is intended to support recent graduates of art living in, or from, County Meath and to assist young and emerging artists in the development of their professional careers. Emily Bruton, a daughter of former Taoiseach John Bruton, graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a Bachelor in Design in Ceramics in 2007. She has exhibited in the National Museum of Ireland, The Blue Loft Gallery, The Bridge Gallery and the Art Explosion in San Francisco. Her work is in the Irish Life permanent collection and in many private collections throughout Ireland, the USA and Europe. Carol O'Connor is a recent graduate from the National College of Art and Design. Her work, mostly oil paintings, reference landscape albeit ambiguous and fleeting. The original image is often obscured or rubbed away so that just a trace of the original intention is left behind, thus creating a sense of motion or transition like a memory of what has just passed or happened. The title of her new work featured in the exhibition is 'Indelible Traces'. 'Going Solo' continues in the gallery at Solstice Arts Centre until Friday 18th December.