Bea Orpen: Paint & Purpose

With three invited artists this exhibition remembers the founder of the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, painter and educator – Bea Orpen, and continues a focus on materiality and painting.

Jerome Conor, June Connell, Kitty Elliott, 

Caoimhín Gaffney, Beatrice Glenavy, Bea Orpen, 

Cerise Orpen, Richard Caulfield Orpen, 

William Orpen, Hilda Roberts, 

Marianne Lucy Le Poer Trench, Catherine Ward

We mark the artistic contribution of artist Bea Orpen in Paint and Purpose – an exhibition of her work drawn from the Collection and private collections, presented with invited contemporary artists – June Connell, Caoimhín Gaffney and Catherine Ward, their practices exploring the idea of landscape in a variety of ways.

The exhibition also features work by some artist friends and contemporaries of Bea’s, acquired to the Collection, as well as members of the Orpen and Trench families, also part of the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection.

To accompany the exhibition we publish a new commissioned text by Dr Yvonne Scott, fellow emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin titled Bea Orpen and the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Vincent Black

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