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Leamlara Art Trail is a contemporary art exhibition set in rural East Cork, showing a mix of local and international artists whose works will reflect specifically on the rural setting and community in which they are presented. Its aim is to take contemporary visual arts out of its urban comfort zone, and reflect on the meanings of rural life today. The majority of artworks will be made specifically for this exhibition, and with perspectives from both local as well as international artists, these works share a thoughtful approach that allows the viewer to see these surroundings in new and interesting ways.

The project is structured around a scenic ring walk, where artworks will be positioned along 6 km of quiet boreen road. The Art Trail will start at Tattan’s Ring’s View Bar, and circle back there. To find out more, or book a free tour, please follow this link.

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Leamlara Art Trail is an initiative by Siobhan Tattan and Harald den Breejen. Previously Siobhan Tattan was Artist in Residence at Kings College London, Kunsthuis SYB, and De Ateliers, Netherlands. She has exhibited in Ireland, UK, Netherlands and US. Harald den Breejen is co-director for the Centre for Philosophy and Visual Arts. Previously he was Artist in Residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

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Leamlara Art Trail is funded by the East Cork Municipal District Creative Communities Scheme, Handles and Hinges of Midleton and Cork and Sean Savage Crash Repair Centre, Ballinacurra, Midleton.

Leamlara Art Trail is also indebted to the support it has received from the local community, without whom this exhibition would not have been possible. We are immensely grateful to Jerry Cashman, Thomas Brown, Tim Mulcahy, Sean Barrett, Dan McCarthy, Willie Savage and Eileen Hegarty for allowing us use of their land or property to exhibit artworks. We are sincerely thankful to Catherine Tattan for her help and support in the planning and installation stages, and for use of Tattan’s Ring View Bar, Serge and Ellen van der Zweep for their support in realising Ciara Finnegan's 'ROVER', and John Buckley for granting us permission to exhibit poetry by Domhnall Na Gréine.