Opening Reception Friday 11 April, 12-2pm at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion – all are welcome to attend.
This solo exhibition by Kinsale-based artist Fiona Boniwell features new work which addresses the artist’s evolving relationship with movement through drawing.
Running to a Pause brings Fiona’s visual art practice together with her love of Korean martial art form Kuk Sool Won. These two aspects of Fiona’s life emerge in tandem throughout the exhibition, her compositions varying in scale and subject but always embodying a sense of perpetual motion and dynamic energy. In these images, figures and their surrounding space are activated simultaneously through motion, prompting viewers to think about their own movement through space and the ways in which our mobility defines our relationship with what exists around us. Having pursued her passion for visual art and martial arts for the past 15 years, this new work explores Fiona’s relationship with movement in the aging body and questions what constitutes a meaningful and active life as we age.
About the Artist
Originally from London, Fiona Boniwell studied art at Blackheath College of Art and later Kingston University, graduating with a BA Honours degree in Fine Art. In 2006, Fiona moved to Kinsale and, since relocating, she has worked steadily on the development of her art practice which centres on drawing as a means of expression and investigation. Equally comfortable working large or small scale, in digital or traditional media, her work is characterised by dynamic mark-making, and high-contrast, expressive imagery. Fiona will host martial arts and drawing events throughout the exhibition period including a martial arts-inspired drawing event on National Drawing Day on 17 May in Fitzgerald’s Park.