Lusty and Emotional 2023
Mixed media installation
Mixed media installation
Lusus
The Courthouse Gallery & Studios
11th August 2023 - 7th October 2023
Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran
Lusus brings together the work of five artists, Eleanor McCaughey, Fiona Gordon, Anna Spearman, Domnick Sorace and Joanna Hopkins. This exhibition explores the robust relationships between materiality, human experiences, and the impact the works have on our experience of spaces. Through a range of multi-faceted installations, encompassing painting, sculpture, video, sound, and various other media, the exhibition invites visitors to delve into the artists' distinct explorations of domesticity, environment, cultural heritage, and the physical and metaphysical connections between humans and the material world.
"Lusus" is a Latin word that can be translated as "play," "game," or "sport." Or a deviation from the norm. It conveys a sense of playful exploration and experimentation. In the context of an art exhibition title, "Lusus" suggests that the artists engage in a creative and imaginative exploration of materials, inviting viewers to join in the playful discovery of new sensory experiences.
The concept revolves around the exploration of materials and their ability to evoke experiences with visual art across various ideas and influences driving artistic discovery. Each artist's work delves into unique aspects of materiality, offering unique perspectives on the interplay between the tangible and intangible, physical and metaphysical. From the earth-bound cultural heritage quality of McCaughey's installations to the digital exploration of femininity in Gordon's work, from Spearman's joyous encounters with everyday materials to Sorace's distillation of sentiments, and finally, Hopkins' immersive interventions using native plants and human-made structures – all these perspectives converge to create an exhibition that celebrates the power of materials and their ability to shape our perception of the world.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain 2023
Mixed media installation
Mixed media installation
Portals
Luan Gallery
29 April 2023 - 25 June 2023
Luan Gallery is delighted to present PORTALS; a group exhibition featuring artists Ann Maria Healy, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Eleanor McCaughey, Jennifer Mehigan, Daire O’Shea, and Lucy Sheridan and curated by Aoife Banks. The exhibition is kindly supported by the Arts Council, The exhibition will continue until 25th June.
PORTALS is a group exhibition that delves into playful dreamscapes and journeys across fictional realms. Through sculpture, installation, film, mixed media and paint, the artists featured in this exhibition offer pathways into speculative fictions and alternate worlds. PORTALS embraces the potentiality of technology, fantasy, and the unconscious mind in providing us with portals of escape from the ominous realities of our inner and outer worlds. The exhibition will incorporate newly commissioned and existing works including a site-specific outdoor sculptural installation by artist Daire O’Shea in direct response to the construction of the Athlone Greenway pedestrian bridge due to open in Summer 2023. PORTALS is the first exhibition to be curated by recently appointed curator Aoife Banks for Luan Gallery.
Eleanor McCaughey and Lucy Sheridan’s site-specific installation ‘Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain’ takes on the ruined aesthetics of the city of Oz (Return to Oz, 1985). This immersive work contemplates the dark sentiment running through Return to Oz through the fabrication of a fictional landscape that layers elements of sculpture, painting, video and sound. The installation deals with themes of displacement, escapism, and mental health, with obvious links to theatricality and film. Both artists are interested in the idea of elevating the status of selected everyday objects through various modes of display, lending new meaning and a facade of importance through altered modes of representation.
Luan Gallery
29 April 2023 - 25 June 2023
Luan Gallery is delighted to present PORTALS; a group exhibition featuring artists Ann Maria Healy, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Eleanor McCaughey, Jennifer Mehigan, Daire O’Shea, and Lucy Sheridan and curated by Aoife Banks. The exhibition is kindly supported by the Arts Council, The exhibition will continue until 25th June.
PORTALS is a group exhibition that delves into playful dreamscapes and journeys across fictional realms. Through sculpture, installation, film, mixed media and paint, the artists featured in this exhibition offer pathways into speculative fictions and alternate worlds. PORTALS embraces the potentiality of technology, fantasy, and the unconscious mind in providing us with portals of escape from the ominous realities of our inner and outer worlds. The exhibition will incorporate newly commissioned and existing works including a site-specific outdoor sculptural installation by artist Daire O’Shea in direct response to the construction of the Athlone Greenway pedestrian bridge due to open in Summer 2023. PORTALS is the first exhibition to be curated by recently appointed curator Aoife Banks for Luan Gallery.
Eleanor McCaughey and Lucy Sheridan’s site-specific installation ‘Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain’ takes on the ruined aesthetics of the city of Oz (Return to Oz, 1985). This immersive work contemplates the dark sentiment running through Return to Oz through the fabrication of a fictional landscape that layers elements of sculpture, painting, video and sound. The installation deals with themes of displacement, escapism, and mental health, with obvious links to theatricality and film. Both artists are interested in the idea of elevating the status of selected everyday objects through various modes of display, lending new meaning and a facade of importance through altered modes of representation.
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