Art exhibition featured old lime kiln tower

ARTIST Rennie Buenting has just hosted an exhibition of her work in Teach Bríd, Tullow featuring a wide range of both subjects and media. Rennie submerges herself in her subject and allows it to dictate the medium she uses.

In ‘Multiplicity’, she uses painting, printmaking, drawing, collage and sculpture to deliver landscapes and still lifes. The exhibition also features the old lime kiln tower of the sugar factory in Carlow, which was also shown in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 2022, and a monoprint inspired by a poem by African poet Maya Angelou.

The exhibition also shows a model for a large installation ‘Reconstruction’ and is a metaphor for what happened to the country’s sugar factories at the time of closure. The factories were taken apart and sold all over the world to become part of other factories, so in ‘Reconstruction’, photographs of the lime kiln tower in Carlow – the only remaining structure of the local sugar industry – were cut into pieces and turned into the artwork.