'Strange Enlightenments' - Responses to the work of Brian O'Nolan. Featuring artwork by The O'Kane family. Curated by Dr Marianne O'Kane Boal.

This exhibition features painting, drawing, sculpture and animation.

The work has been selected in response to a quote from The Third Policeman; 'Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places'. It points to each artists' journey in interpreting the writings of Brian O'Nolan/Flann O'Brien, the experience of creating their responses and the aesthetic outputs that provide strange enlightenments for the viewer.

This is the first time that artwork responding to Brian O'Nolan by five members of the O'Kane family has been created and exhibited. It adds to the corpus of artwork that has been produced over more than a decade by Eddie, Joanna and David O'Kane.

Image caption - David O'Kane 'Flann O'Brien - Nonhuman 2024'