Artwork

Showing from August 11 to September 11, 2011. Opening recep­tion Saturday, August 13 from 3 to 5 pm with Sally McKenna speaking. 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.”

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. This exhib­i­tion opens on Saturday, July 16th and runs until August 10.

This exhib­i­tion of ten new paint­ings by Carol Hodder is being shown in the back gallery until July 13. The work is featured on the program of the West Cork Literary Festival, which runs concurrently.

The Whole Planet is a Garden is the first major exhib­i­tion in Ireland of this important artist’s recent work since the comple­tion of a three-year US museum tour of his earlier work. Featuring over two dozen new paint­ings, the exhib­i­tion opens Saturday, June 18th and runs until July 13th.

There is always an ongoing exhib­i­tion of gallery artists on show that changes regularly.