“iúl” Exhibition brings the Primary Colours Arts in Education Programme to a close

October 4 – Oct 4th – Nov 1st 2025

Gallery hours 11am – 4pm Tuesday – Saturday.

Hyde Bridge Gallery @ Yeats Building Sligo F91 DVY4

The Primary Colours Arts in Education Programme finishes this October with “iúl” (meaning attention) a two-person exhibition by participating artists Lucy Goodier and Margaret Kilcoyne at the Hyde Bride Gallery in the Yeats Building.

Primary Colours has been SAS’s children’s education art programme, developed around the visual arts curriculum through school residencies, workshops and exhibitions. For the past 21 years the programme has been under the management of curator and artist Catherine Fanning. A key principle underpinning the programme has been to support the participating artists own professional development, realised through processes of participation, co-creation, collaboration and the opportunity to make new artwork for exhibition.

In 2025, the artists worked with Sligo Sudbury School (Lucy Goodier) & Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré (Maggie Kilcoyne) and the work on show in  “iúl” has come from and been inspired by the artists’ residency time there.

Lucy Goodier is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in photography, often exploring themes of transience, impermanence, and the ephemeral. She engages with natural abstractions: patterns in water, reflections, light, and shadow, using various photographic processes to capture fleeting moments.

Margaret Kilcoyne works through various artistic mediums including film, storytelling, song, and poetry. As a poet, Margaret is drawn to the spaces between language and silence—where feeling resists definition, and where the ordinary becomes sacred. Her work explores themes of memory, loss, femininity, childhood, and the fragile threads that bind us to place and time.