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| On the 15th November 2004 Omagh Support and Self Help
Group hosted a week long Exhibition in Omagh Tourist
Information Centre entitled "The Summer of '98". The
emotive exhibition is attributed to the work of
renowned artist Mr Ray Duncan and provides a lasting
commemoration to the individual lives lost during that
fateful summer - in the Omagh atrocity and the tragic
death of the Quinn children, Ballymoney. |
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Artist's Statement - Mr Ray Duncan
"Most recently my work has returned to a concern for the
events in Northern Ireland. This exhibition is a selection of
works over a period of 2 years. At first I was driven by a
sense of anger about the murder of the Quinn children and then
the slaughter of Omagh. Now I hope that the work will be seen
as a commemoration of the individual lives that were lost.
Press photographs became the starting point for the
paintings about the murdered Quinn children. This was also true
for my work on the Omagh bombing. The photographic still images
taking from a home video made on the day and used in the press
gave a sense of detachment, of unreality to the loss of life so
often portrayed. By the use of paint, change of scale and the
fractured quality of the images the reality of the events seem
to return and I would hope remind the spectator of the
inhumanity of it all".
Ray Duncan
Omagh Support and Self Help Group and Mr Duncan feel very
passionately that this historic collection of paintings should
remain together as a collection, preferably in the town which
they relate to. However, if you would like to purchase the
collection or donate to our group to enable us to purchase it
please contact Omagh Support and Self Help Group Office on
028 8225 9877 or alternatively contact us. |
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