Mary Canty: Walking the Fields
September 17 to October 13, 2004
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 18th from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.
Mary Canty is drawn to paint the Irish landscape not only by the natural beauty of its elements–form, colour, space–but equally by her response to a felt presence in the land itself. Canty’s work features iconographic abstract images of fields and hedges, ridges and rocks, streams and ponds, as well as the remains of ancient peoples. The works are imbued with a sense of mystery and wonder. Says Canty, “I make drawings and colour sketches directly from nature and then later uses these images to attempt a more elemental and abstract vision of the landscape.”
Since graduating from the National College of Art and Design in 1984, Canty has appeared regularly in major group shows throughout Ireland. She has shown at the Jo Rain Gallery, Dublin, Galerie Kontrast, the Hague, and Beate Lemcke Gallerie, Berlin. Many of the 30 works in this Glengarriff show were inspired by residencies at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.
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April 10 to May 26
Four Painters: Alice Lyons, Fionna Murray, Hazel Walker, Rita Wobbe
May 28 to June 23
Leonard Sheil: Paintings & Drawings 1996-2004
June 25 to July 21
Jacqueline Stanley: Along the Margins
July 23 to August 18
Bernadette Kiely: Local Time: New Paintings
August 20 to September 15
Atlantic Crossing: American and Irish Artists
Glenn Fitzgerald, Brian Harte, Judy Hamilton, Micheal Madigan, Shirley Nisbet
A Benefit for Cill Rialaig
September 17 to October 13
Mary Canty: Walking the Fields
October 15 to November 10
Siobhan Piercy: Pages from a Palimpsest
November 13 to December 31
Group Landscape Show: Gerard Casey, Brian Garvey, Neal Greig, Carol Hodder, Frances Ryan
Bernadette Kiely : Local Time: New Paintings
Opening Reception: Saturday July 24, 2004, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
This show features paintings in response to the landscape of the North Mayo coast; some of the work was included in the recent Model Arts and Niland Gallery exhibition in Sligo. In Mayo, Kiely found “the blackness of the bog, the silver colour of the sea and sky, the stark contrasts between light and shadow.” The paintings that resulted are based on the themes of bog cotton and gorse, treated as recurring yet transient events of startling contrast in the landscape, events that show the gradual passing of local time. These are works of great texture, painterly and rich. They are abstract images that skirt the edge of representation, both meditative and dramatic in their presentation.
Born in County Tipperary, Kiely lives in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. She attended the School of Art and Design, Waterford and the Slade School of Art, London. She shows regularly at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin and the Stephen Lacey Gallery in London. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including AIB, Office of Public Works, Butler Gallery, Garter Lane Art Centre, University of Limerick, and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
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