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While local aesthetes may decry the brash intrusion of the DLR Lexicon on the Dun Laoghaire skyline, few can quibble about the quality of the interior and the state-of-the art library facilities. For art lovers, there is also a fine new gallery named, with stunning lack of originality, the Municipal Gallery. Why not the Orpen Gallery, for example, given that Sir William was born in the borough? DLR Lexicon’s shows are designed to encourage local artists, though not exclusively. The first 15 months will feature eight exhibitions, five with a Dun Laoghaire focus, two national and one international. It has also put out an open call for three exhibition slots over the next two years. The current show features the responses of local artists to the theme of Home. Some 50 pieces were selected from a submission of almost 400. There is a high proportion of photographs, and David Stephenson’s two images of Raymond, above, stand out — all character and musty detail. Adele Chapman’s acrylic The Home is a muted study in poignancy and Joyce Duffy comes up with a witty juxtaposing in Remembering a Home.