Michelle Boyle
Virginia , Ireland
Michelle Boyle’s work explores people and place from everyday life expressed in her distinctive spontaneous and fluid way. ‘
MessageLucy and Robert Carter opened the Grilse Gallery in Killorglin in May 2022, a year after having relocated from the UK. The term ‘grilse’ is the name for a one-year-old salmon returning to its home river, which seemed appropriate for a gallery on the banks of the River Laune in Lucy’s family’s home town. The Laune fishery was operated by Lucy’s family for generations and the river remains the backdrop to our working lives: even its estuary, Castlemaine Harbour, flows alongside our home in Cromane. If it could speak, we imagine it would be worrying about modern contaminants and the scarcity of the salmon.