On Saturday, August 13, more than 120 fans celeb­rated the opening of Tim Goulding’s new exhib­i­tion, Clouds. Bridgestone Guide guru and chairman of the Irish Cloud Appreciation Society, Sally McKenna spoke to a crowd that included Dr. Strangely Strange band members, Graham Norton, artists Charles Tyrrell, Martin Gale, Maurice Henderson, Cormac Boydell, Rachel Parry, Helena Korpela, Jenny Richardson and Angie Shanahan. See if you can spot your friends in the slideshow above!

The exhib­i­tion is on view Tuesday to Sunday from 11 to 6 until September 11th.

Evening Sky

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.

To view images from the exhib­i­tion, click here.

Invisible Atmosphere

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.