All are welcome to join us in Sample-Studios Gallery, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion on Thursday 5 March from 5-7pm for the Opening Reception of Biscuit Tin Nostalgia, a solo exhibition by Elize de Beer. Opening remarks will be offered by Miguel Amado, Director of Sirius Arts Centre. Light refreshments will be served.

BISCUIT TIN NOSTALGIA

Biscuit Tin Nostalgia is a solo exhibition by visual artist Elize de Beer, presenting a new body of work developed through engagement with the Liam Kennedy photographic archive at UCC Library’s Special Collections and Archives. de Beer offers a glimpse into the recent history lived memory of Cork by exploring an archive which documents the daily life of Corkonians from the 1930s through the 1980s. Much like de Beer’s encounters with an unfamiliar landscape when she first arrived in Cork from South Africa, her engagement with the archive was navigated by seeking and creating connections. de Beer forms a speculative nostalgic connection to the material, reimagining place and history through landscape, photographic fragments, and archival traces across photo etchings, mixed media works, and artist books.

The exhibition continues until 18 April.