Opening Reception Monday 16 January at 5pm • Official re-opening of LCGA by Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD

A Vivid Imagination invited 40 people who have been closely associated with LCGA to select pieces from the Collection which particularly engage them. The title references Sean Keating’s speech when awarded Freedom of the City on the launch of the West Gallery extension in March 1948. Keating praised Limerick Corporation for its foresight to inaugurate a municipal gallery and expressed his impression of Limerick as ‘a city of dignity and manners’, whose ‘people had a vivid imagination and only needed a vivid vocabulary to be entirely distinctive’.[i] This exhibition responds to Keating’s words, inviting the people ofLimerick to delve into both imagination and vocabulary in describing how the LCGA Collection engages them.