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Gypsy Ray (1949-2020)
On the Sulky, (Edition 4 of 25)
Currently not on view
- Year
- 2010
- Size
- Framed 56.5 x 51.5cm
- Medium
- Silver Gelatin Photograph (archivally printed)
- Provenance
- Donated to the Collection in 2020
Gypsy Ray, an artist originally from the USA, lived and worked in County Kilkenny for over 20 years and was a generous and respected teacher.
From her 2015 exhibition at the Butler Gallery Gypsy Ray pulls the lens in close on a group of Kilkenny-based traveller children tenderly photographed with their cherished horses and dogs. In Brothers, 2010, Ray elegantly reveals the kinship of two boys’ on horseback cast against a big open summer sky. It is a poignant work that tells us a lot about the boys, even as their faces are turned away from the camera.
