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Rita O’Driscoll
Rita O’Driscoll’s work takes a critical view
of social, political and cultural issues. Her current work looks at how the human
condition allows us to ignore unpleasant aspects of society and allows
indifference to thrive. A fishing net, made in a children’s institution,
features prominently as a metaphor for the entrapment and striping of identity. Rita’s work is in multi-media and installation.
Mundane materials and the process through which she can manipulate these
materials, adapting to place and concerns, fascinates her.
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Barbara Hopkins Reen - the
event of a thread
Barbara’s
work is strongly rooted in memory and is primarily concerned with an
exploration of identity, both singular and collective. She explores the possibility
of visually representing something that is abstract, giving a form to the
invisible and in the process creating a personal memory palace.
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Rob Monaghan - Skin
I am an
interdisciplinary artist whose current art practice focuses on the concept of
the unsaid within family. My work sets imagery, materials and soundscapes in
constant metaphorical motion using figure and place. Referencing the element of
water as a metaphor for the family support system I aim to create a narrative
of strength and growth whilst simultaneously touching on the vulnerabilities
that exist within our fragile lives.
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Fran Wolf - Shrine
SHRINE fig. referring to the veneration offered
to a person, object, saint or deity, v.
enshrine in one’s heart or thoughts… (Oxford English Dictionary)
Through
painting and printmaking, installation and photography, this body of work seeks
to honour the hope, desperation, humility and joy of people of any faith – and
none, who visit or make a shrine.
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Tim Davis - Landes
My work comments on situations that are sometimes evident in reality but more often are imaginary and not necessarily experienced.
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Tara
O’Donoghue - In a polytunnel far far away…
“Colour is a power, which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
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Sue Crellin McCarthy - WITNESS
...to see, hear or
know by presence and perception...
‘Witness’
continues the documentation of Sue Crellin-McCarthy’s ongoing enquiry into
‘being’. Life & Death, Physical
& Metaphysical, Inner & Outer Self; the ethereal elements of existence.
In an attempt to
communicate the intangible, the artist uses her own growing alphabet of
metaphoric symbols, setting them in time and space to evoke and communicate
meaning that resonates beyond the limitation of words. The resulting works are
then used as descriptive clues in a concluding installation work.
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Nina Sanctuary - Drawing a Ferry Crossing –
Baltimore to Sherkin
Island
Nina recorded the moment by moment of the ferry crossing
between Baltimore and Sherkin Island by drawing the lines and
the marks she saw as the
ferry moved inexorably between the two
points.
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Nicola Kelly - the carriage held but just ourselves
One must pay dearly for immortality;
one has to die several times while still alive
Friedrich Nietzsche
My work is concerned with the immortality that everyman can now
achieve through the indefinite preservation of digital imagery. Like the
ceramic shards of antiquity that depicted the deeds of gods and heroes, today’s
mundane, trivial and often deeply embarrassing images have democratized and
perhaps debased the concept of immortality for all of mankind.
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Mona O'Driscoll - Hypoxia
Her recent work examines the ecology of the
ocean and the hidden pollution within it.
Hypoxia (Dead Zones) are areas of the
world’s oceans that are depleted of oxygen due to human activities. These Dead
Zones are mainly caused by excessive nutrient pollutions entering the seas,
which in turn depletes the oxygen and kills marine life.
Mona is working with a variety of mediums,
drawings, paintings, instillations and photography, using bubbles as a metaphor
to highlight the fragility of the ocean.
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Etaoin Melville
My project deals with life and death, in a
positive light-hearted way. I am interested in how when someone close to you
dies it makes you look at life differently and change your perspective. It
reminds you how short life is and how lucky we are to be here and to live a
more positive, loving life. The project represents the journey of life, looking
at how life initiates new chapters and how free will and personal determination
shape the given circumstances. I am exploring the duality of identity from within
and without.
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Finola Cooney - the pipes are calling
Finola Cooney works mainly
through the mediums of painting, photography and print. This collection of
photographs is inspired by the words of Isamu Noguchi and the
beauty to be found in the mundane and everyday objects protruding from the
landscape of West Cork.
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Mary Finn - Reflections on the Gaze
Mary Finn is an artist who is interested in
all areas of the politics of vision. The multi-layer effect and tampering with images
in her work represents the many layers of how images are sometimes constructed
to manipulate our lives.
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Mary Jordan - FAILED STATE,
Bankers Bailed Out, People Bailing Out
Bankers and
bondholders pumped finance into an elite Irish bubble, which burst in
2008. The government has chosen to pay
back these unsecured moneylenders with resources drained from society,
resulting in catastrophic social impacts.
One quantifiable result is the “Fourth Wave” of emigration, collapsing
communities in rural areas.
The central piece
of the exhibition commemorates the 516 people who emigrated on 17th and 18th
May 2013, inspired by the Twin-Headed Bollard.
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Edwin Cridland - Seeing
With the Eye’s Mind
By making reference to the
extensive neural processes by which we interpret visual data generated by
photoreceptors on the retina by reference to stored information, these works
attempt to suggest the great extent to which perception, of any sort, relies on
memory and creative imagination. The patchwork appearance of the images refers
to the bricolage which underpins the fragile framework of our understanding.
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Christine McAuliffe - The Raw
Truth
Christine McAuliffe’s present body of work is executed
on steel and it depicts a forest which was home to a character named Tilly, a
person who plays a major role in her work. Tilly was described as being both “vulgar”
and as “hard as steel”, hence the reason for art on steel. This lady lived and spoke
the truth which was as “raw” as she herself. Her memory has awakened an
awareness of the reality of life presented to those who lived close to the forest. The phenomena of light and movement is
also a concern in Christine's art work and the aim is to capture the essence or
emotional significance of this place which was known for it’s beauty, ugliness and harshness.
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Caoimhe Pendred
Imagery from stories we were told as children resonates deep
within our psyches. Once you scrape off Disney’s saccharine coating, you find
the dark and organic result of centuries of storytelling, with deep roots in a
time when brides were bartered, children abandoned, and real beasts roamed in
the woods. Working over a diverse array of media my work is concerned with the
bewitching and transgressive nature of Fairy Tale.
"I believe in the truth of fairytales more than I
believe in the truth in the newspaper." Lotte Reiniger
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