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.
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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.
From July 2 to 13, an exhibition of ten new paintings by Carol Hodder, Leanings, will be shown in the back gallery. This work is featured on the cover of the West Cork Literary Festival program which runs concurrently.
Says Hodder, “the box paintings have evolved from re-examining marks which appear in sketch books and diaries showing a repeated leaning towards certain types of form. These ‘doodles,’ which represent ladders and boxes, are the drawings that surface when the mind is in a state of abstraction. The box structure is universal in that it defines an architectural response to space and form. It also suggests a container or receptacle for holding something. The imagery in these paintings contains metaphorical ideas of the box in a different context, being allegorical rather than literal, and is a personal response to the concepts of fragility, containment and our human need for structure and place.”
Hodder has exhibited throughout Ireland, including Eigse, Iontas, the Oireachtus, RUA and RHA shows, and her work features in many collections, public and private. She lives in Crosshaven, Co. Cork