Seeing Georgian Limerick
In 2008, to commemorate 50 years of the Irish Georgian Society, the Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and Limerick City Gallery of Art commissioned Deirdre Power to take photographs of Georgian Limerick.
Photographing what one sees in Georgian Limerick was an invitation to reveal what has been hidden by familiarity and neglect – architectural coherence, moments of monumentality, beauty. Alternatively the images can show what is normally unseen – the richness of the interior decoration, the life of the lanes. With the power of photography to focus attention and to transform the ordinary and taken-for- granted the exhibition aimed to help define the character and value of Georgian Limerick.
Mike Fitzpatrick former Director of Limerick City Gallery of Art 2008
The Quest 2014
Limerick City of Culture 2014. Power takes Roche’s Hanging Garden as a start and embarks on a personal consideration on the role of the strange and exotic in the everyday, inspired by a particular moment in the history of the city when new wealth and power made it possible for men such as William Roche to experience and possess the products of distant lands.
