A talk with Artist Noel Molloy and Arthur Duignan on Noel Molloy’s development of his Art Practice in Roscommon and related topics plus the 25^th Anniversary of Roscommon Arts Center and its beginnings / development and the parties involved.

Arthur Duignan

Originally from Main St Roscommon, now happily retired in Shankill Dublin, Arthur started a design and publishing company in the 1980s and went on to manage Ireland’s premier arts centre in the 1990s. In 1994 he joined Create (then CAFE) as a Project Manager and over 30+ years helped design and deliver innovative collaborative and socially engaged arts projects at local national and EU level, including training arts trainers, producing the Irish Fundraising Handbook, devolving the Artist in Community Scheme, fostering a specialist library & archive, and providing admin, research, financial and moral support to many artists and producers, including fellow Rossie and friend the late Jacinta Lynch and Broadstone Studios.

Noel Molloy

Since the late 70s, Roscommon multidisciplinary artist Noel Molloy has made strange, challenging works out of found objects and domestic detritus. Visit his website

https://www.noelmolloyart.com/ and you’ll find contorted scrap metal sculptures of soldiers, dancers, kings and bears. You’ll see an Irish flag, painted across three bottles of holy water. You’ll see a baby’s pram, crudely repurposed into a sort of military vehicle. A rusty mask will stare back at you with a grotesque metallic grin.