If you're around Dublin over the next few weeks, be sure to check out 'Shoot the Tiger', a group exhibition featuring 3 of my drawings from the Mangan's Series. Press release below...
"PrettyvacanT Dublin presents ‘Shoot the Tiger’, a group exhibition showcasing artwork created since 2008 under the new constraints of an economically damaged nation.
'Shoot the Tiger' artists are: Aoife Flynn | Declan Greaney | Amy McGovern | Eilis Murphy | Noel Noblett | La Cosa Preziosa | Blaithin Quinn
The work represents an emotional and artistic response to a post-Crash Ireland and features artists working to make their voice heard in an ever- uncertain economic reality. The art represents concepts of decline, collapse and failure, but also of optimism and hope.
The exhibition will take place in one of the many newly-constructed yet vacant retail units filling our streets and towns, creating a new urban landscape. PrettyvacanT Dublin was invited by Dublin City Council Arts Office to enliven one of its empty units through a pilot scheme designating the space for cultural use.
'Shoot the Tiger' continues at Unit 3, James Joyce Street until 31st March.
Open Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm (Closed St Patrick's Day)"
A few months ago I was selected for inclusion in a 3 person exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo. The resulting exhibition 'Strange Days' will open on Thursday 5th April at 8pm and will continue until 28th April. Check out the press release below, hope you can make it!
Strange Days: Michelle Considine, Amy McGovern and Margo McNulty.
Official Opening Thursday 5th April, 8pm
Strange Days is a curated exhibition featuring the work of three artists – Michelle Considine, Amy McGovern and Margo McNulty. The exhibition takes, as its starting point, a sensibility which shared by the three artists. While each has a distinctive style, there is a tone and an atmosphere in their work which suggests a haunting presence.
The ultimate effect is one of an ‘uncanniness’ – the development of a mysterious dimension located somewhere between consciousness and memory. This effect will both challenge and unnerve the viewer, instilling a feeling of discomfort, which is in turn, at odds with the sublime aesthetic beauty of the works.
This dichotomy adds to the overall mystery of the combined works and places it firmly in a modernist and post-modernist tradition which dates back to the early days of Dada and the Surrealists – a tradition which has endured abstraction and often works best with figurative work.
Admission free. All welcome. Runs until 28th April.
