Jacqueline Stanley : Along the Margins
Opening Reception: Saturday June 26, 2004, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
Opened by: Peter Murray, Curator, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
This important solo show features paintings and works on paper depicting different aspects of West Cork and Kerry. Stanley captures the essentail in a way that refocuses our own contemplations of this island’s uniquely beautiful margin.
According to Stanley, “I have found that where mountains meet wetlands, cliffs and shoreline edge the ocean, and flat open spaces change to more textured terrain, these are where my interests lie. These divisions, at the edges and margins, beginnings and endings, are repeated themes.” Her ability to render the vibrant color of the landscape brings out, as she says, “the chrome yellow of the gorse, crimson fushsia, vivid orange montbretia, which leap out of the huge vocabulary of green.” She reminds us how rich the colours, textures and patterns in in the landscape around us truly are.
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Leonard Sheil: Paintings & Drawings 1996 - 2004
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 2004, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
An exhibit of more than two dozen works by Dublin-born artist, Leonard Sheil, features mixed-media paintings inspired by his travels and the landscape at home in the Wicklow mountains. Sheil’s blend of paint and non-paint materials is spontaneous but not anarchic, often with rich, gritty texture. What the works have in common, whether huge canvases with heroic leanings or small intimate panels, are ceaselessly varied surfaces on which Sheil deploys a variety of techniques and medai. Colour builds upon colour, sometimes dynamically liquid, pooling, dripping, flowing or splashing. The work is intense and lush without being overly romantic. It shows a mature depth of conviction of the mysterious world below the surface.
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Lives in Carlow.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Guiness Hop Store, Dublin
1998 Loft Galery, Carlow
1996 US Embassy, Invited Artist, Dublin
1995 Irish Life Centre, Dublin
1991 Pembroke Gallery, Carlow
1991 Counterpart, U.U., Belfast
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003-2004 Royal Hibernian Academy annual show, Dublin
2002 ‘First Foot’, Bunclody, Co. Wexford
2002 Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
2001 Artists from South East Ireland, Wales
2001 Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
2000 Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival ‘Invited Artists’, Carlow
2000 Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
1994 Tom Cadwell Galleries, Dublin
AWARDS
2002-2000 Materials Award, Carlow County Council
1999 Eigse - most outstanding work (J.J. Duggan award)
1995 Eigse - emerging artist of promise (J.J. Duggan award)
EDUCATION
1995-1998 University College Dublin, M.A. Philosophy
1987-1991 NCAD Dublin, B.A. Fine Art
1986-1987 College of Art & Design Dun Laoghaire
