BERNADETTE KIELY: Real and Apparent part ii

July 20 through August 8

REAL AND APPARENT part ii is an exhibition of new work by Bernadette Kiely and follows on from the sold-out part i, at Taylor Galleries, Dublin, earlier in July. Two distinct exhibitions, both encompass her response to the specific landscape in and around the river Nore that flows outside her home in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

“Real and apparent” is a phrase used to describe how light rays are refracted as they travel from air to water and vice versa in the physical world. The real depth (of an object) is different to the apparent depth the observer appears to be looking at. In essence, the observer is looking at something that is not physically at that point in time and space.

From Bernadette Kiely’s engagement with place, and moving between the objective and the abstract, she explores the surface, depth and movement of the water, the effects of fog and mist and the floods which submerge the riverbanks through increasingly unpredictable seasons, in a series of paintings and drawing which appear as testimony to the changing nature of the Irish landscape.