Yanny Petters's The Plants We Played With in new show at National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Shown for the first time since its acquisition by the National Gallery of Ireland

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that Yanny Petters's work 'The Plants We Played With' has been included in the National Gallery of Ireland's upcoming exhibition 'In Real Life'.

The prestigious museum in Ireland's capital city acquired this painting through our gallery in October 2020 after showing it that year as part of a group show titled 'Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art', a beautiful exhibition curated by guest curator Patricia Butler, assisted by Janet McLean (National Gallery of Ireland). 

It is a testament to the quality of this work that it was chosen to be shown publicly once again in the National Gallery Of Ireland, albeit for the first time since its acquisition.

In Real Life is curated by Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints & Drawings at the National Gallery of Ireland. The exhibition runs from the 17th of August to the 24th of November 2024.

To learn all about the itinerary of 'The Plants We Played With', from a thematic group show, Hopscotch (presented at VUE Art Fair, RHA Dublin, by our gallery in 2015) to its acquisition by the NGI, please visit The Plants We Played With.

The National Gallery of Ireland has also included the work in the Collection Highlights section of their website where you can see great close-ups of this beautiful painting. You can also access the text and the images through the Explore and Learn section of the museum's website.

Please note that as part of her participation in the exhibition In Real Life, Yanny will be giving a talk at the National Gallery of Ireland from 3.30pm to 4.30pm on the 29th of September 2024. Click on this link for all details: For the Love of Weeds.

The Olivier Cornet Gallery would like to take this opportunity to remind you that the artist's new solo show of verre églomisé paintings (reverse paintings on glass) will open on the 6th of October 2024 in our premises. Please visit Fieldwork with Mainie and Albrecht for more information.