Cavanacor Gallery

 

The Other Side of Real

Dermot Seymour, Martin Gale, Eddie O’Kane, Neil Shawcross, Diana Copperwhite, Robert Armstrong, Diarmuid Boyd, Eoin McHugh & Priscila Fernandes.

December 1st 2007 – January 25th 2008

December 2007 brings an exciting array of artists to Cavanacor Gallery. ‘The other side of Real’ is an exhibition of work by artists who explore fiction and reality in painting.
Dermot Seymour’s realism is edgy, unsettling and at times sinister, his work has been compared with Social Realist painting. Eoin McHugh’s work is often disconcerting; his creations seem to exist in a mysterious suspended dimension whereas Martin Gale has a more elusive tranquil approach. Diarmuid Boyd’s work has a raw, earthy quality with references to the past. In Diana Copperwhite’s work there is a loose, gestural quality that creates dreamlike, lyrical images. Robert Armstrong’s paintings hone in on the details within historical masterworks, combining symbolic associations with the mundane and the unnoticed. In Eddie O’Kane’s work there is a transient feeling, nostalgic imagery denoting a passage of time. The work of Neil Shawcross has dealt with the mundane and everyday objects for many years, but his recent work in mixed media uses metaphor to create a double meaning. Priscila Fernandes has also been involved with double meaning in recent years with her ‘alter ego’. Through the process of personality fragmentation she explores concepts of identity, authorship and autobiography.

 

 

 

Priscila Fernandes as Ana Garcini

Breakfast Manifesto - Explanatory Diagram #3

Watercolour pencil on brown paper, 63 x 46 cm, 2007

 

 

Eoin McHugh

Untitled

2007

 

 

Robert Armstrong

Scouts

oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm, 2007

(Image courtesy Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
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Robert Armstrong

Horse Latitude

oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2007

(Image courtesy Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)

Dermot Seymour

Blue eyed

oil on canvas, 76 x 122 cm, 2007

(Image courtesy Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)

 

Diana Copperwhite

Untitled

Watercolour on paper, 2007

(Image courtesy Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)