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Welcome to the Gallery website of artist Tadgh McSweeney, Cork, Ireland. Here you will find out about the artist and his paintings,woodcuts,silk-screen work, etchings and frescoes. Please make contact if you are interested in any of his work.

"Odyssey" Exhibition at The Framemaker Gallery, Carrigaline Industrial Estate, Cork until 7th May 2011 Click here for more details.

"Radharc" Exhibition" at Macroom Town Hall, Macroom, Co.Cork, from the 8th - 29th of July 2011.

I have come to regard the creation of works of art as a form of research into the visual experience of the world. That is the view of the scientist in me, but there is also the poet (in me and in everyone), and all forms of visual art are the equivalent in visual terms of poetry and music. They are also, of course, unavoidably expressions of the artist's present (at the time of their creation) emotional/psychological state and the state of the world. They may even have elements of prophecy in them, for the artist is unconsciously picking up what lies ahead.

I think integrity is, perhaps the most important trait in an artist - being true to one's own vision regardless of everything is the only way the work can have validity or meaning - otherwise the work is only the echo of someone else's work, and one becomes only the shadow of somebody else.

If I may quote Emerson:

- Tadhg McSweeney, artist.

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