The Space Between is an expansion of the work in Richard’s final MA end of year show and explores the consistencies of construction and deconstruction. For this exhibition, Richard has created a series of four wall drawings, delicate observational studies of places in the process of destruction and disappearance. These quiet, still drawings place…
Category: Past Event
Mary Cody – String
Mary’s practice investigates the material nature of painting today. Through her steady, considered and labour-intensive approach, layers of wool, string and acrylic are carefully articulated onto canvas. Only Mary knows when an artwork is complete and when the optimum level of balance is reached.
Launch: Saturday January 19th 2019 2pm to 4pm
Exhibition Dates: January 21st to March 1st 2019
Jane McCormick – Not Half Right
Launch: Saturday November 10th 2018 2pm to 4pm
Exhibition Dates: November 12th to December 21st 2018
She describes it as a monologue of misery, made slowly with many intermissions and peppered with moments of levity to sweeten the pill. The ephemera of a sick life and the associated pills, potions, cures and lotions are some of the themes in this work.
Not Half Right also explores rituals around healing and the never-ending search for ‘the cure’. Over the years McCormick has amassed a grand hoard of useless articles and medically related tat much of which has found its way into the drawings, prints and assemblages in the show.
Maurice Hobson – Faces Caught In Time
Born in Caledon, Co. Tyrone in 1957, Maurice Hobson was injured in a bomb-blast in Dungannon in 1975 and sadly passed away in 1987, aged just 30 years old. The 1975 bomb left Maurice with facial disfigurement and other medical complications that, alongside the continuing violence of The Troubles, were to heavily influence his artistic practice later in life. This series of compelling, unapologetically discomfiting self-portraits, are a deliberate and uncomfortable reminder of the human casualties of ideological violence. In these photographs, Maurice has created a series of manipulated self-images so immediately challenging that they can be difficult to spend…
Launch: Thursday August 2nd 5.30pm to 8pm
Exhibition dates: August 3rd to August 31st
Robin Price – Air of the Anthropocene
Air of the Anthropocene is a fascinating National Lottery-funded art project created by artist Robin Price and University of Birmingham environmental scientist Professor Francis Pope. The project documents air pollution levels around the world through photography, creating impactful images that allow people to visualise the air pollution levels around them. Air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor in the UK and globally, which is why Robin and Francis recognised the importance of translating this into something the public could understand and get excited about.