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Shrine by Patricia Looby
| | Talk on ‘Reliquaries & Shrines’
| | Given by Griffin Murray, Collections Care Officer, Kerry County Museum (Winner of Museum of the Year Award 2009) in association with Cafés Carte Blanche programme and Patricia Looby. | | Thursday 2nd July - 8pm - Admission free | | County Museum, Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel | | | | |  The Tabernacle is the central shrine of the altar of the church and the main focus of devotion and ritual. The object would usually be designed to be set into a marble altar piece though medieval and contemporary tabernacles are often stand-alone objects in their own right. Currently on display at the South Tipperary County Museum is a golden Tabernacle, an ecclesiastical object, created in 1945 by a local goldsmith to mark the centenary anniversary of the Sisters of Charity. Inset into its structures are individual pieces of jewellery donated by the local population of the time. This object is the inspiration for the activities which will take place in the Shrine café space: Patricia Looby will create a contemporary "Shrine”, in the form of a small Wooden House, which is the original medieval tabernacle shape and just like its predecessor, the Shrine will be made up of donated jewellery, except this time it will be custom rather than precious: beads, broken chains, earrings, bangles and whatever people offer to be used for such the piece. In addition to the making of the Shrine, people will be invited to bring significant and precious jewellery and talk about the stories attached to it. Their stories and memories will be recorded and the jewellery photographed, and displayed as part of a collage documenting the activities that took place in the café. | | | | | | Opening Times | | Friday 3rd July from 5-7pm | | Sat 4th - Sat 11th July from 11-7pm | | | | Address | | 7 Mitchell Street, Clonmel |
| | | Patricia Looby lives and works in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland in both solo and group exhibitions and is included in several important public and private collections including the Crawford Museum in Cork. Her most recent solo show ‘Harvester’ originated at Temple Bar Gallery and subsequently traveled to several other venues in Ireland. She was invited to contribute to ‘An Leabhair Mor” (the Big Book) – a recent large scale project to create a contemporary illuminated manuscript of recent poetry and art by writers and painters from Celtic countries. Folklore, Alchemy, transformative processes, the role of animals in Celtic, Greek and Egyptian mythology and the myths, legends and lore surrounding them are strong influences on her work. | | | |
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