Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda Municipal Art Collection
The Drogheda Municipal Art Gallery was founded by the late Bea Orpen, HRHA and
Benefactors
Highlanes Gallery
her husband CEF (Terry) Trench together with the Municipal Art Gallery and Museum
Anglo Printers
Committee in the mid-1940s. The collection dates from the middle of the eighteenth
Dónall Curtin
Curator/Director: Aoife Ruane; Operations and Security Manager: Patrick Casey;
Opened in 2006, Highlanes Gallery received funding from Drogheda Borough Council,
century and is housed at the gallery in former Franciscan Friary Church on Laurence
Drogheda Grammar School
Exhibitions and Installation Officer: Ian Hart; Accounts and Administration:
Louth County Council, and the project was part-funded by the European Union
Street, Drogheda.
Drogheda & District Chamber of Commerce
Siobhan Burke; Duty Officer/Reception: Siobhan Murphy; Duty Officer/Public
through the Interreg IIIA Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body
Sheelagh Duff
Programmes: Hilary Kelly; Housekeeping: Myroslava Bodgan
by East Border Region Interreg IIIA Partnership, the International Fund for Ireland, and
Artists represented in the Collection
Michael Flanagan, Rennicks Sign Manufacturing
Joan Mary Bloxam, Muriel Brandt, Rene Brault, Thomas Brezing, Elaine Byrne, Erica Il
Mary Fay
*Building Maintenance: Frank Curran *Gallery Invigilators: Gerry Kierans, Ursula
Cane, John Cassidy , Richard Caulfield, Simon Coleman, Helen Colvill, Sylvia Cooke-
Bernard Gogarty
McCloskey, Irene Nelson, Laura Gramzow, Joseph Flanagan, Andrew Brady
Collis, Diana Copperwhite, James Humbert Craig, John Crampton Walker, Gerard
Brian Hillen-Moore
Highlanes Gallery is supported by *FÁS Community Employment Project through
Highlanes Gallery and F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge in Co. Down were
Dillon, Kitty Elliott, Beatrice Elvery, Laurence Fagan, Pat Griffith, May Guinness, Brian
Niall & Valerie Lund
Millmount Cultural Development Services
developed together through the Intereg IIIA Programme, and continue to share
Hegarty, Letitia Hamilton, Jack P. Hanlon, Michael Healy, Grace Henry, Nathaniel
Lorcan Lyons & Associates, Architects
Hill, Charles Holroyd, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett , John F. Kelly, Gereon Krebber, Dany
Peter Lyons
Board of Management
Lartigue, Marianne Lucy Le Poer Trench William, John Leech, L.S. Lowry, Thomas
Alison Lyons
Chairman: Kevin McAllister Board: Seán Cotter, Kieran Lawless, Alison Lyons, Joan
Markey, Clare Marsh, Ferenc Martyn, Pamela Matthews, Richard Moore, James
Kevin McAllister
Martin, Róisín McAuley, James McKevitt, Sarah O’Hagan, Fr. Ailbe Ó Murchú, Paul
McNeill Whistler, William Mulready, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Jackie Nickerson, Bea
Caroline McBride
Smyth, Brona O’Reilly
Orpen, Andrew O’Connor, Anderson Paisley, Mervyn Peake, Sarah Purser, Nano Reid,
Dr B. O’Connell
Gabriele Riccierdelli, Hilda Roberts, Henry Roper-Curzon, George William Russell,
Dr Conor O’Shea and Family
Board of Directors
Tasmin Snow, Mary Swanzy, Armelle Skatulski, Charles Tyrrell and Herbert Webb.
Scoil Bhríde N.S., Bóthar Brugha,Drogheda
Chairman: Joan Martin Board: Brian Harten, Kieran Lawless, Róisín McAuley, Joseph
Sacred Heart Secondary School, Drogheda
McGuinness, Brona O’Reilly
Patrons
Smyth & Son Solicitors
The Family of Bea Orpen and CEF (Terry) Trench, Founders of the Drogheda Municipal
Paul Smyth
Art Collection
Margaret Startup
Brendan and Bernadine McDonald
Patrick Walsh
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Louth County Council – LED Task Force under EU Peace II Programme and partfinanced by The Irish Government under The National Development Plan.
exhibitions and resources.
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