Kathy shows pedigree with unique portraits of sheep

Established local and international artists, as well as GMIT art students, and primary-school pupils from Galway, Mayo and Roscommon are showcasing their work in a Galway 2020 event, Project Baa Baa.

Whatever your feelings about the name – and people are divided – there’s lots worth seeing in this event that celebrates the cultural, economic and environmental contribution of sheep-farming and the traditions associated with it. The project has been organised in conjunction with the European Congress of Sheep Farming & Associated Traditions.

Those taking part include local textile artist, Kathy Ross who has created 12 portraits of pedigree Irish sheep breeds.

Each portrait incorporates needle-felted wool shearings that the artist, who lives outside Tuam, has gathered from the breeds. Kathy completed the portraits by layering this needle-felted sheep wool with hand and machine embroidery to create a hyper-realistic representation of each animal.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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