Chris Doswell’s, Mallow Street

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This former townhouse was built in the 19th century and has had many uses – it has been an estate agents, a nursery and a gallery known as Chris Doswell’s Gallery.
Chris Doswell’s was used as a venue in multiple editions of EVA.
This site was one of twenty-six listed venues for the 22nd edition of EVA in 1998, curated by Paul M. O‘Reilly (b. 1934, USA/Ireland) and titled Circus ZZ. This was the first and only edition to be adjudicated by an EVA employee. That year he worked as the director and curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art and administrator of EVA. It was the most expansive in EVA’s history in terms of number of venues and artists up to this point. This edition of EVA also introduced a number of changes to the format of the exhibition, including a change of date from winter to summer.
In 1998, it featured the work of Ciarán Lennon (b. 1947, Ireland), who exhibited a diptych of paintings titled Horizontal Hold (1998).