Treasure Seekers 3

4 - 8 December 2006

Treasure Seekers 3, (c) UCE Birmingham Treasure Seekers 3, (c) UCE Birmingham

In this third display, Chris Willis, Building Services Manager at Margaret Street, has selected some landscape drawings and paintings of Ireland from the BIAD School of Art Archive. The artist Arthur J. Gaskin (1862-1928) was a member of Staff at the School of Art for 39 years. The three works are scenes of Connemara in County Galway, which Gaskin visited in 1923.

Treasure Seekers 3, (c) UCE Birmingham Treasure Seekers 3, (c) UCE Birmingham

Chris, who has worked here for 23 years, is a second-generation Irishman and he plans to move back to Ireland. So alongside Gaskin's images of the Irish landscape, Chris has chosen to display some of his own souvenirs from supporting the Irish football team."