ELEANOR MCCAUGHEY
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, The Ground Floor Gallery, The Complex, Dublin, 2018
Solo exhibition

Sound piece by Strand Unit on East Wall recordings.
Co curated by Helen Mac Mahon
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The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yates.
 The poem uses Christian imagery allegorically depicting the apocalypse and the second coming to describe the atmosphere of post-war Europe. The Second coming is a statement about the contrary forces at work in history and the conflict between the modern and the ancient world. A new civilisation will be born, one that will reject what the previous generations celebrated, while humanity descends into moral confusion.
 
McCaughey contemplates impenetrable forces shaping our contemporary society, from the ideological to the technological. Her work references Christian imagery along with Celtic rituals of the cult of the head. McCaughey’s portraits appear genderless, and from no clear socioeconomic background. They resemble a statue of importance, a bust on a plinth like a godly figure on a pedestal. They are represented in a way that questions how we use social media to construct false impressions of status and authority in an age of individualism that emphasises the moral worth of the self.


Photography by Steven Maybury
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Mask, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2018
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Third Aeon, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2018
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Axis Mundi, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2018
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Shell Shock, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2018



















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  • Home
  • Work
    • A sea change into something rich and strange
    • Whispers of rhythm balance on my hands
    • Swallowing Mist To Lick Your Mouth 2023
    • Forget your cares, sow your wild oats, sin is a wonderful disease 2023
    • Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain 2022
    • Bones in the attic 2022
    • SuperMarket Art Fair 2021
    • Merchandising of memory installation 2021
    • What remains of this place 2020
    • Lockdown 2020
    • Dreadful Sorry 2019
    • Oddly Accurate Things 2019
    • BEDECK 2019
    • The blood-dimmed tide is loosed 2018
    • Like Me 2018
    • There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed 2017
    • video
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop