ART EXHIBITION IN THE MERRIMAN DINING ROOM
The second of the ‘Fine Art Fine Food’ exhibitions is now open to viewers. There are 36 works on show from 18 different artists. The exhibition is the result of an exciting collaboration between Kinvara Area Visual Arts (KAVA) and The Merriman Hotel in Kinvara. The Merriman is committed to supporting arts and culture in an area with a thriving and ever-expanding artistic community. With a view to this they have given over the walls of the hotel dining room to KAVA artists, to hold exhibitions there on an ongoing basis. The hotel is a fitting venue for such an enterprise. An iconic building, being the largest thatched roof structure in Ireland it was named after the famous local poet Brian Merriman, author of The Midnight Court. The ‘Quilty Room’, the dining room where the art is exhibited, is aptly named after the famous Irish artist Joseph Quilty, who made Kinvara his home.