“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach”
Taken from Roberto Bolano’s, 2666 p.256
He forgot to add: like painting a picture…
This exhibition is inspired by that expansive interpretation of reading and its soulful reverie which transports us and transforms word to image.
Another Venus Perhaps is a group of Waterford based artists who are showing together for the third time. They met at a mentoring course organised by Waterford County Council Arts Office and Big Look. The artists are: Julie Cusack, Suzanne Buggy, Teresa Fitzgerald and Alison Boyle.
Exhibition runs in the Index Gallery, Waterford Central Library from December 2nd – 23rd during library opening hours.
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