aLAF 2006 Launch

Visual Art Exhibition
Thursday 30th March, 2006
7pm
Front Lounge
(exhibition runs for 1 month)

The 2006 aLAF Art Exhibition launches the aLAF Festival with its opening at the Front Lounge on Thursday 30th March 2006 at 7pm.

aLAF is pleased to invite two Irish lesbian artists to show thier work. Returning from aLAF 2005 we have Leanne Hurley, and a newcomer to the aLAF visual art exhibition is Yvonne Hennessy.

Leanne Hurley

Leanne Hurley's electric digital art fuses striking imagery with intense colours to produce an art unlike anything else around today. Her 'digital art for a digital age' has created huge waves throughout Northern Ireland, and, utilising the internet, has sold in Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Americas.

Renowned Irish artist, Terry Bradley, has referred to Leanne as 'Ireland's best up-and-coming artist' and counts himself amongst her many admirers.

The main focus of her work is the female form, producing image which present both the sensuality and power of the female species.

Leanne firmly believes that as technology is continually moving on we would be foolish not to harness it and utilise it in an artistic way.

Her latest show and first solo exhibition, 'Rough with the Smooth', has launched Leanne Hurley's art into the mainstream and collectors are beginning to seek out her work while media interest increases with each passing week.

She is also the author of The Gay Girls Guide To Being Gay, the first book in the Gay Girls Guide series, which also includes a column in the new monthly Northern Ireland queer magazine Icon. More information about the Gay Girls Guide can be found at www.gayguide.co.uk

More information about Leanne Hurley can be found at www.leannehurley.com and she can be contacted at info@leannehurley.com or info@gayguide.co.uk

Yvonne Hennessy

Yvonne Hennessy is an artist from Laois. A graduate of the Animation Institute of Ireland, she has quaulifications in Animation and Animation Production. Though a keen animator and cartoon artist, her real passion is painting from life. In this particular exhibition Hennessy is trying to show us that there is more than looking for the truth - there is finding it.

Or rather, it finds you. Through her use of colour, light and shade she offers a projection of what it is to see, touch, feel and to exist in love, live and mute expression. Each mark is a phrase in a conversation, every omission is a necessary silence. Through these pieces she says the words that most people never can.