Exhibition Archive
Shadows & Stone - a photographic exhibition by Ken Williams - - in the Toradh Gallery from 23rd Aug - 24th Sep
Date Released: 23 August 2007
Meath County Council
Art & Heritage Offices
Invite you to the opening of
'Shadows and Stone'
by Photographer, Ken Williams
on Thursday 23rd August at 7.30pm
in the Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne Civic Offices.
The Magnificent Tombs and Temples of Pre-Celtic Ireland
Dowth passage tomb by the full moon light, a lunar eclipse above the hill of Tara and a rare series of atmospheric photographs from inside the chambers and passages of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth are among the new pictures by photographer Ken Williams for this exhibition to coincide with Heritage Week 2007.
Ken, originally from Drogheda and now living in Swords, has travelled extensively across Ireland and parts of England, Wales and Portugal to record the famous and the more obscure monuments of the later stone-age (all of which are older than the original list of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World drawn up around 200BC) and rarely seen monuments of the bronze-age, a period spanning several thousand years.
During this period, the landscape of Ireland and the communities that inhabited it underwent massive and irrevocable change with the rise of agriculture. The impact of this revolution is often forgotten but is reflected in the scattered ruins of enormous monuments of stone erected by the early farmers.
Here in Ireland we have a particular wealth of such monuments and this exhibition draws from their impenetrable mystery and intrigue, for they offer a rare glimpse inside the minds of our ancestors.
This exhibition runs unitl 19th September 2007.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm.
Tel: 01 8358014 Email:
artsoffice@meathcoco.ie
