Margo Banks

‘My Mother’s Home’, refers to the field on Teeromoyle Mountain in Southwest Kerry, which once housed Margo Banks grandparents’ home. Sustained in reflection, her mother’s stories of her life as a child in Kerry echo through Banks’ work. Her Mother and her Mother’s people have long since died and the house and field abandoned - the submerged ruins of the house rest among the wildlife. Hares, foxes and crows witness the passage of time; symbolic guardians of her stirring memories. Migrating time and place, the field presents itself as a monument; a testament to lives, which removed from residence, find home in the future through her work.

Margo Banks is an Irish painter and sculptor. She has had many solo shows in Ireland over the past 15 years including 6 solo shows with the Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin, a solo show in 2010 with the Henry Gilmore Gallery Belfast, The United Arts Club Dublin in 2011, The Origin Gallery Dublin in 2012 and the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre Kerry in 2013.