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I have used your very generous gifts to purchase Tolka Valley Park (Island), 2020 by Vera Klute ARHA for donation to the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. The work is in her current exhibition Grounded in the Molesworth Gallery. The show runs until 30th September and is well worth visiting.
Vera Klute is an extraordinarily talented and diverse artist who is probably best known for her statue of Luke Kelly in Dublin’s Docklands. She works in a variety of media – oil, sculpture, video and kinetic sculpture, to name but a few. Since graduating from the I.A.D.T. Dun Laoghaire, she has had solo shows in the RHA, The LAB and, indeed, in the Butler Gallery. She was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2018.
The works in her current show were mostly created during the Covid lockdown and so were made from her observations within a few kilometres of her home in Ashtown, including the selected piece which was made, as the name suggests, in Tolka Valley Park. The Butler Gallery chose it because it brings a a 21st century urban edge to landscape painting.
I am delighted to be donating it to the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny which is a not-for-profit gallery with museum accreditation and charitable status. The gallery is free-of-charge and offers the public exhibitions that reflect the constantly changing nature of visual art practice, has important Permanent Collections, and delivers a diverse and far-reaching Learning and Public Engagement Programme.
I have visited The Butler Gallery often in its old premises, the former kitchens in the basement of Kilkenny Castle. It has just moved to a new premises the Evans' Home, a former Almshouse so this gift is a nice way of marking the move.
Vera Klute is an extraordinarily talented and diverse artist who is probably best known for her statue of Luke Kelly in Dublin’s Docklands. She works in a variety of media – oil, sculpture, video and kinetic sculpture, to name but a few. Since graduating from the I.A.D.T. Dun Laoghaire, she has had solo shows in the RHA, The LAB and, indeed, in the Butler Gallery. She was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2018.
The works in her current show were mostly created during the Covid lockdown and so were made from her observations within a few kilometres of her home in Ashtown, including the selected piece which was made, as the name suggests, in Tolka Valley Park. The Butler Gallery chose it because it brings a a 21st century urban edge to landscape painting.
I am delighted to be donating it to the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny which is a not-for-profit gallery with museum accreditation and charitable status. The gallery is free-of-charge and offers the public exhibitions that reflect the constantly changing nature of visual art practice, has important Permanent Collections, and delivers a diverse and far-reaching Learning and Public Engagement Programme.
I have visited The Butler Gallery often in its old premises, the former kitchens in the basement of Kilkenny Castle. It has just moved to a new premises the Evans' Home, a former Almshouse so this gift is a nice way of marking the move.
