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Palimpsest
Summer Group Exhibition
5th July – 31st August 2008
Exhibiting Artists:
Charlie Whisker, Mahali O’Hare, Kieran Brown, Jennifer Trouton, Ann Quinn,
The Summer Group Exhibition at Cavanacor Gallery brings together five unique artists with several common threads running through their practice.All five artists call to mind moments in generic memory, places or objects suspended in time and in the past. The images are imbued with significance and yet seem inconsequential; the viewer is left to guess which have come from a personal archive and which are taken from other sources.
"Last night" 46 x 60 cm
Charlie Whisker paints from his own experience, what he’s witnessed and journeys he’s gone on, physically and mentally. “I've found that the best recipe for my work recently is to take the people out of the picture, so the scene left behind is something they may have fled, or are imagining or remembering. I recall reading what TS Eliot said about writing poetry. He referred to his method as the ‘objective correlative'. What he was saying was - set up some clues, some indications along the way, so the audience can become involved and can start out on the journey you are taking them on. Make them work for it.”
Mahali O’Hare’s work seems to bring random glimpses of the past; a shadow world built up layer upon layer. They also stop on the verge of revealing their secrets. She revisited the lost places of her childhood, and found a certain detachment. The places fail to fulfil the desire of return and remembrance.
‘She remembers feeling like a tourist on the edge of her own life. ‘
Marcia FarquharMahali O'Hare was born in Exeter in 1968. She completed her BA at the University of the West of England in 1993. She has participated in group exhibitions both in the U.K and Germany. In 2005 LOT at Zoo Art Fair and again in 2007 Room represented her. Art Futures has shown her work each year from 2002 - 2007. In 2007 she was the first recipient of the Rootstein Hopkins Award, which commissioned a solo exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol accompanied by her first publication. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Plymouth School of Art and Performance, Exeter.
"I have forgotten a few things"
Kieran Brown uses aspects of his personal life as metaphors in his work, he combines them with the coincidences, mistakes and failures of his production methods, which direct a large part of his practice, making sculpture, installation and moving image.
Brown equips himself with an array of materials and ideas: foam, wax and resin are combined with diverse unrelated objects. The work is a combination of the familiar and the bizarre fantasy that is created in the artist’s world.
Kieran Brown has exhibited extensively. Exhibitions include FA Projects, London Dec 2005, Long Live Romance part two Galleria Pack, Milan Oct 2005 and Lipanjepuntin Artecontemprantea (In collaboration with above), Rome Sept 2005. Row the Riposte in the Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, Sept 2004 and Brandung Kunsthalle Faust, group show Hannover Germany May 2004. He was also represented in New Contemporaries Static, at the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and by LOT at ZOO Art Fair 2005.
"Congregate"
Jennifer Trouton is a gifted painter whose subject matter is again popular culture.
Her recent body of work deals with the loss of a generation and their culture and for herself a loss of innocence. The sad realisation that she will never again explore and adventure with wonderment all the peculiarities of her grandparent's home created a sense of sadness when passing mantels in empty dwellings and she realised that this was because they embodied her recollections of childhood, of growing up in rural Ireland.
Jennifer Trouton is based in Belfast and has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since graduating with Honours in Fine Art in 1996. Her work has received continued support from the Arts Council with her most recent awards being a funded residency at the Banff Centre of Arts in Banff Canada and a materials grant for the production of her new body of work.
Previous awards include a 3 month residency at the 18th Street Art Complex in Santa Monica USA with a solo show in the Los Angeles Biennial, the COE (Clare Morris Open Exhibition, Ireland) Adjudicators’ Award and the Belfast young contempories award. Trouton’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The University of Ulster and British Midland Airlines. She has recently completed a specially commissioned series of oils for the permanent collection of ESB, the Republic of Ireland’s National Utilities Company.
Jennifer Trouton currently serves as Chair on the board of directors for Belfast’s long established and respected Queen Street Studios where she is completing her next body of work.
"Muckish seen through the Austrian Pines"
Ann Quinn was born Donegal in 1978. Her work shares many journeys with us, evoking places visited, moments experienced and spaces imagined. She was awarded a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin in 2000, and has had solo exhibitions in the Cross Gallery, Dublin 2008 and 2006 and South Tipperary Art Centre 2006, Irish Art Centre, New York 2005 and Appleloft Gallery, Sligo 2002
She has carried out residencies in Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain, 2008
Glenveagh National Park, Co Donegal, 2007 and The Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, 2004, 2005, 2007
‘I have had moments when the sun has gone down, the sky is still blue, stars are starting to appear and I have felt completely in tune with the land around me, as if I were watching a story I know unfold before my eyes. My paintings are an attempt to capture these moments.’
"Residue",carborundum on paper, 124cm x 97cm
Hughie O’Donoghue grew up in Manchester but has lived in Kilkenny for the past decade. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery London in 1984. He regularly exhibits at the Fenton Gallery, Cork, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin and the Purdy Hicks Gallery, London. The Passion Series paintings 'Via Crucis' and 'Episodes from the Passion' shown at Haus der Kunst, Munich and RHA, Dublin were made over a period of 10 years and were commissioned by an American collector. At present, they are on loan to the Irish people. His work is widely represented in public collections including the OPW, IMMA, British Museum, National Gallery, London, Imperial War Museum, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, Hugh Lane, Dublin.
Cavanaor Gallery have a selection of Hughie O’Donoghue’s carborundum prints from the intriguing Residues and Postcard from Milan series
"Field dream"
acrylic & mixed media on board, 76cm x 76cm
Felim Egan was born in lreland in 1952 and studied in Belfast and Portsmouth before attending the Slade School of Art in London. He then spent a year at the British School at Rome in 1980 before returning to Dublin. Egan has exhibited widely across Europe with 48 solo exhibitions since 1979 including major shows at the lrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,1996 and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 1999. In 1981 he represented Ireland at the Xie Biennale de Paris and in 1985 at the San Paulo Bienal. In 1993 he won the prestigious UNESCO prize in Paris, and in 1995 the Premiere Prize at Cagnes-sur-Mer. His work hangs in numerous public collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the collection of the European Parliament. Major Commissions include; Dublin Castle; O’Reilly Hall, UCD; Meeting House Square, Temple Bar; Pavilion Theatre, Dunlaoghaire and the National Gallery of Ireland. Felim Egan is a member of Aosdána.
He is known as a painter of restrained eloquence. His paintings are built up slowly with layers of thin colour applied to the surface and stone powder ground into the acrylic. The work is universal in spirit and at the same time emotionally intimate. His paintings are epiphanic, in that they convey to us the essential nature or meaning of something of which we were previously unaware. He is an abstract artist, a painter of quite formal abstract images, and yet his work is tied to the place he lives and works, to the long horizons, big skies and empty sands of the Strand and sea. In this way his abstract paintings are almost landscapes, with a magical quality that his neighbour, the poet Seamus Heaney, has aptly described “ a balance of shifting brilliances”.
The exhibition runs from 5th July until 31st August 2008.
Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Telephone / Fax 00353 74 9141143
email: art@cavanacorgallery.ie website: www.cavanacorgallery.ie
Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6, Sunday 2-6 or by appointment.
Directions:
From Lifford Roundabout take the N14 (Letterkenny road) to Rossgier (3km) 200m past Rossgier on the main road turn left (signed Cavanacor Gallery). The Gallery is 200m on the right.
