Opening Reception: Thursday, 18th January 5-7pm. All welcome
The exhibition reflects on the fluidity and cyclical nature of the earth’s ecosystems through the lens of place, landscape, material and loss. This group exhibition brings together work by Rebecca Bradley, Noelle Gallagher, Lucy Peters and Kathryn Kelly. The works in the exhibition come together to reflect on continuous cycles of creation and destruction. The exhibition invites us to explore our relationship and indivisible connection with the land as an important tool in imagining a hopeful future.
About the Artists:
Rebecca Bradley is an artist based in Cork and a board member of Sample Studios. A graduate of the Art and Process Masters programme at MTU (MA:AP 2013) she works mainly with paint and found materials and sometimes performance and text to explore ideas about our encounters with place. Densely layered and textured paintings expose the tactile process of adding and removing materials. Central to her observations and mark-making, is a concern for the connections between natural and manmade incursions on the land.
Noelle Gallagher is a visual artist based in Galway, Ireland and a member of Engage Studios. A graduate of Painting (ATU 2011), she has since expanded her practice to include moving image, photography and printmaking techniques. The themes of life, death and temporality thread through all her work and currently focus on the science of biophilia, deforestation and rewilding.
Lucy Peters is a graduate of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin with a Masters in Art and Research Collaboration (2022) and is a member of A4 Sounds. With a background in the fashion industry, she has become increasingly concerned with the vast volumes of mass-produced clothes that are casually consumed and thrown away. Her exploration of over-consumption has encompassed research into the practices of fashion retailers, including those that are closing down, as well as the strategies that have been developed by charities to manage huge warehouses full of discarded, and ultimately worthless, fast fashion clothing.
Kathryn Kelly is an artist based in Cork, a member of Sample Studios and a graduate of Limerick College of Art and Design (2009). Her creative practice is both intuitive and research-led, working with mixed media collage, assemblage, mark-making, installation and lens-based media. The work explores the body, memory, loss, the primal, otherness and the surreal through
methods of fictional imaginings, emotive impulses and the principles of fluidity, transgression, transformation, care and repair.
About the Curator:
Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. She is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art (MLitt Curatorial Practice: 2022) and MTU Crawford College (2017). Recent exhibitions and projects include The Licks Within the Lip (2023), Page / Process / Proceed (2022), Reach Out and Touch Me (2022), These Stately Hills (2022). Alongside her own practice, she is a co-director at Bloomers, an artist-led publishing collective.