On nearly the last day of the Brian McMahon retrospective I wandered down the delightfully named O'Curry Street in Limerick and saw one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Spontaneity, decreptitude, thick paint as rugged and textured as the unplastered walls that held the paintings, the building full of life and colour and resounding with exclamations and cries from visitors who recognised themselves or others in the vibrant, splashy, slashy portraits that hung on every wall. This was a real local's exhibition but wouldn't have looked out of place in Dublin. Still, why should they get all the best shows?
There are two good write-ups of the exhibition
here and
here and below are my own photographs of these stunning works.
The show was held in the Sailor's Home (above), a magnificent building that will hopefully come back to life as a cultural venue after this successful outing.
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