Con Kelleher
Con Kelleher is a fine art photographer based in West Cork, Ireland.
Selected Exhibitions:
1994: 5 Artists,Vangard Gallery.
1995: Summer Show, Vangard Gallery.
1996: Tim Goulding Selection,Lavit Gallery,Cork.
1997: "Source to Sea" Lavit Gallery,Cork.
1998: Beara Artists Exhib.-Invited Artist.
1999: Lavitt Gallery [with Niall Foley.]
1999: R.H.A. annual exhib
2000: Eigse Carlow Arts Festival.
2000: R.H.A. annual exhib.
2001: Photographic Exhibition, Lavit Gallery,Cork.
2004: Boyle Arts Festival.
2005: Boyle Arts Festival.
2006: "Sense of Place", Macroom, Co Cork
1995--2006 Iverni Gallery.
2007: McBride Gallery[with Tim Booth]
"Portraits",Ionad Culturtha Baile Mhuirne.
2008: "Music Portraits",Baltimore,Co Cork.
2008: "Townlands", Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork
Selected Collections:
E.P.A. Enniscarra
I.T.T. Tralee
Cork County Council
Boyle Arts Collection
ENVIRONMENTAL SITES:
The Gearagh, on the River Lee, a mile outside Macroom is a unique haven for wildlife. It is a unique and ancient forest system situated on a broad, braided channel where the river leaves the hills and widens out into an alluvial plain, formed at the end of the last Ice Age.
The Gearagh is unique being an intricate tangle of narrow channels and many branching streams that encircle a maze of islands covered in oak forest. Although half the original area has been damaged it still represents the only extensive alluvial forest in Ireland or Britain and probably Western Europe west of the Rhine.
The communities, or groupings, of plants growing together are uncommon and there are some very rare species of plants while the flooded areas attract large concentrations of wildfowl.
In 1954 a vast number of the oak trees were felled to make way for the reservoirs to drive the electricity generating station at Carrigadrohid.
For about 25 years it was commonly thought by the scientific community that the entire area had been damaged. However, a remnant of the woodland remained and in the 1980s it was listed by the Wildlife Service as worthy of nature reserve status.
In 1987 the area was declared a statutory nature reserve under the Wildlife Act, 1976, with the active co-operation of the E.S.B. who own the land.
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Flow, Kilmichael
Photograph, Ed 3/28 30x46cm €380.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
Reeds, Inchigeela
Photograph, Ed 1/28 36x30cm €380.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
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All images © Con Kelleher and McBride Gallery