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Bloomsday 2021 with the Olivier Cornet Gallery

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past...

As some of our scheduled exhibitions for Spring this year are/will be only/partly available through our virtual space within this period, we have decided not to organise any summer shows this year precisely to give these exhibitions a chance to be seen by the public when we reopen. As a result, we won’t be showing a new thematic group show for Bloomsday 2021 as has been the case for the last 5 years. However on June 16th this year, we will be presenting a special show in our 3D Virtual Space: a look back at the last 5 years of Bloomsday exhibitions at the Olivier Cornet Gallery. 

The exhibition titled "Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past" will feature a selection of works from “Portrait of Gerald Davis as an Artist” (2016), “There's a touch of the artist about old Bloom (2017)” , “Drawing on Joyce (2018)”, “Olives, Oysters and Oranges (2019)” and “The Morphing Feminine” (2020). 

A copy of the online catalogue can be viewed / downloaded here.


By the way, do you know that there is already an umbrella page on our website with links to all these exhibitions:


We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the visual artists, poets and performers who have participated in these exhibitions, as well as Joycean experts and enthusiasts who have contributed -and in very large parts- to the success of these exhibitions: Gerald Davis’s family, Dublin Sketchers, Marie-Hélène Brohan Delhaye, Mark Traynor, Jessica Peel-Yates, Dr Flicka Small and Dr Caroline Elbay. We would also like to thank The James Joyce Centre Dublin for organising the festival every year and for including us in it!

2022 will be a special year for the Bloomsday festival and can we say that our thematic show will be around the theme of censorship...

Image: 
Robert Russell, ‘Lost in Poppy Syrup’, etching & photo intaglio (26x37cm), Ed. of 10, from 'Drawing on Joyce' (Bloomsday 2018 group show)

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