Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Highlanes Gallery was founded 20 years ago, with much of its capital funding centring on its location in Drogheda, a border town in Co. Louth, and the challenges to the citizens across both sides of the border during and since ‘the Troubles’.
Focusing on representations of the Irish border in painting, print, photography, film and popular culture, Picturing the Border concentrates upon how artists have reacted to the border since 1922, moving away from stereotypical and clichéd depictions of the region. The exhibition shows communities on both sides of the border and how the division of the country has impacted on each county and region in a different manner.
The gallery’s proximity to the border enables it to draw on local contacts and artistic networks and institutions thus revealing the full cultural response to the over one-hundred year old boundary. Co-curated by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick and Aoife Ruane, Picturing the Border will have up to 10 invited artists as well as work from public and private collections from Ireland and Northern Ireland.
