New Mekitarian Brigid complements Palmieri mosaic

The Community Centre is delighted by the new Cian Mekitarian artwork, which has been added to our St Brigid’s cloak mosaic, writes Enda O'Neill. The original mosaic was by Katy Palmieri, who created several mosaics around the town in a Brigid 1500 Thornton Lace project with our local Bridge Camphill community.

In consultation with artist Cian Mekitarian, we thought it would be appropriate to keep the St Brigid theme. Cian's wonderful art is on display on our utility boxes all over the town and also in the Valley on the large fairy house. In Cian's beautiful work, we see St Brigid flinging her cloak (Katie's mosaic art) across the Curragh plains.

These beautiful pieces take the bland look off our wall and work in harmony together. I hope that over the next few years, we will have that wall completely covered with different themes relevant to our community. I'm thinking the round tower at Old Kilcullen might be appropriate ... or perhaps our unknown and talented street artist who did the work beside our St Brigid might contact me, and maybe we could also collaborate with him (or her) on another piece! 

Any suggestions are, of course, welcome.

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