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NORTH Clare is going Nordic this weekend with the arrival of the Finn- ish Ambassador Seppo Kauppila to Ballyvaughan on Saturday.
Ambassador Kauppila will be the guest of honour at the Burren Col- lege of Art to launch “Due North’, the first ever exhibition of Finnish and Swedish art to take place in the west of Ireland.
‘Due North’ is the fifth in the an- nual series of exhibitions to take place at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan. The exhibition, which will be curated by Jan Kaila, will fea- ture some of Scandinavia’s foremost photographic artists and open to the public from Sunday, August 10.
It will feature the very best of Finn- ish and Swedish artists including Pekka and Lea Kantonen, who look at the favourite places of a group of
indigenous teenagers; Pertti Keka- rainen who explores the concepts of space and memory through pho- tography; Johanna Lecklin who will show a three-screen video-work and Jan Svenungsson will presents a se- ries of chimneys pictured over the last 25 years.
The exhibition also has a local fla- vour including Heli Rekula who will show a number of large-scale photo- graphs based on the Irish landscape; Sami van Ingen who will show a vid- eo in which he and his grandmother return to the place where her father lived during the filming of Man of Aran and and Martina Cleary, Head of Photography at Burren College.
The exhibition runs until August 26 and has been put together with the support of the Finnish Arts Council, the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, the Finnish Institute in London and Clare County Council.