New art exhibition by Nollaig Dunphy opens at Cork’s Quay Co-op

New artwork exhibition by Nollaig Dunphy opens at Cork’s Quay Co-op

An artist who worked at the Quay Co-op for quite a few a long time in the 1990s has picked out the making as the locale for her first exhibition

Concealed Connections, a sequence of 19 summary paintings by Nollaig Dunphy, is now on show in the Upstairs at the Co-op cafe. The Cork native is a psychotherapist with a enthusiasm for artwork. Her exhibition attributes all new function established all through 2022. 

It is a huge year for the Quay Co-op as it celebrates its 40th birthday. It was established up in 1982 many thanks to a collective exertion of feminist, lesbian and gay, environmental and other option groups and people. These days it is a thriving wholefood retail store, vegetarian cafe and deli employing 50 people today between O’Sullivan’s Quay and its satellite retailers in Ballincollig and Carrigaline. 

Nollaig claims it is amazing to return to the Quay Co-op, “It feels definitely fitting to be back again at the Quay Co-op. I can truly say that finding associated and performing at the Quay Co-op was the finest thing that ever transpired to me and it is in which I achieved all of my closest close friends. It is such a supportive house and has permitted so numerous persons together with myself to uncover our way and be real to ourselves. My paintings are representative of my have lifetime and associations, although of study course it is summary and as a result not seen to many others. I paint in the hope that the viewer will be happy, curious and perhaps taken momentarily to a further location.”

Simon Tiptaft, Standard Manager of the Quay Co-op included, “We’re thrilled that Nollaig has selected Upstairs at the Co-op as the location for her very first exhibition. We love very little additional than celebrating and featuring some of Cork’s most renowned painters as properly as up-and-coming artists on the partitions of our vegetarian and vegan restaurant. The Quay Co-op has been a community house for 40 many years and we hope to construct on that about the coming months and months. We have not too long ago restored the ‘Pawnbroker’s Office’ on the 3rd floor. In the earlier it was the HQ for women’s groups, CND and the LGBTQ community campaigns. We are delighted to be equipped to provide this very distinctive personal room for business and social teams to e book after all over again and with a amount of Nollaig’s paintings hanging there also, we hope the art will provide some added inspiration.”

Upstairs at the Co-op vegetarian restaurant is open up for lunch and supper Wednesday to Saturday from 12 noon. The Pawnbroker’s Business is obtainable for non-public dining, for meetings and cocktail reception-type events. A ‘taster’ range of Nollaig’s paintings will also be on exhibit in the Downstairs Deli and in Carrigaline and in Ballincollig retailers.

For more data visit www.quaycoop.com

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