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Sioban Piercy Exhibit

Sioban Piercy: Pages of a Palimpsest
October 15 to November 11, 2004

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 15th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. The opening speaker will be Ian McConough, Cork county Arts Officer

This exhibition of more than forty new prints by Galway-based artist, Sioban Piercy, showcases work of extraordinary, archetypal power. By incorporating printmaking techniques, photography, drawing, and text, Piercy draws the viewer into a poetic contemplation of the human form and nature, relationships, spirituality and dreams.

Says Piercy, “The impetus for the work is personal. It is based on personal experience in the world. But it is not necessarily factual; it is also a fabrication, in the same way a writer’s story doesn’t have to be autobiographical even though the story is based on what he or she knows. The connecting factor in the work is the concern with narrative and the idea of trying to put together images that have a powerful charge and that provoke a response in many different ways, whether psychological or intellectual or emotional.”

Recognized as one of Ireland’s most important printmakers, Piercy lectures full-time in art at Galway Regional Technical College. She has had solo shows at the Galway Art Center; Original Print Gallery, Dublin; Churchill College, Cambridge University; the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; and the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick. She has won numerous awards in and her work is in major collections in Ireland and England.

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Mary Canty Walking the Fields

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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Bernadette Kiely: July 24 – August 19

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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