The 2012 season brings new work and new artists to the gallery. A group show of gallery artists features over 50 works by artists who have shown here before (Jonathan Hunter, Ann Quinn, Leonard Sheil, Eilis O’Connell, Mary Canty, Bernadette Kiely, Cormac Boydell, Tom Climent, Frances Ryan, Katherine Boucher Beug, Patrick Scott, and Sara Flynn) and work by artists new to the gallery (Wesley Triggs, Avril Lyons, Maxine Greer, and a new print by Donald Teskey).
A long anticipated exhibition of new work by Beara artist Tim Goulding opens on Friday, August 12th, with the reception on Saturday, August 13 from 3 – 5 pm.
Clouds will be opened by Sally McKenna. Says the artist, “Most of us construct clouds, be they confusions or castles in the air. The sky has adamantly no opinion of these.” These new paintings, from 2010 and 2011, are simply welcoming spaces. They are ethereal and uplifting and create a calm and enlightening atmosphere.
Goulding was born in Dublin in 1945 and has lived and worked on the Beara peninsula in West Cork since 1969. He is a member of AOSDANA, the group established by the Irish Arts Council to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland. He has exhibited extensively, including solo shows in Ireland, England, Portugal and the USA. His work is notable for its multifarious evolutions from a predominately land based inspiration to the current abstract paintings.
An exhibition of new work by this important Dublin painter opens July 16 and runs until August 11. The opening reception is Saturday, July 16 from 3 to 5 pm, and a preview is available in the gallery on Friday, July 15.
As a painter, Siobhán McDonald examines the links between science and art, exploring processes of entropy and the potency of geological time. Her journey to Iceland in 2010 inspired this new body of work. She studied the Eyjafjallajokull volcano six weeks after it had exploded, with a specific interest in how the atmosphere was altered. The paintings exude a feeling of other-worldliness. Much of the imagery has deep time geological reference to vast unpopulated environments of land, space and sky. They are depictions of curious places that speak of hidden forces, chaotic unpredictability and energies boiling beneath the surface.
