Crane Visual: KIND OF BLUE
14/09/2023 - 04/11/2023
Mondays 12noon - 3.30pm; Tuesdays to Thursdays 12noon to 6pm; Fridays 12noon to 5pm, Saturdays 12noon to 4pm
Musgrave Theatre
FREE
Photo credit: Image courtesy of Crane Visual
KIND OF BLUE, the next Fine Art exhibition at Crane Visual, weaves a discussion around materiality and colour.
Opening event with words from Dr. Tara Shine Thursday 21st September, 6 - 8pm
KIND OF BLUE, the next Fine Art exhibition at Crane Visual, weaves a discussion around materiality and colour, in an attempt to create an embodied space where BLUE as a colour is found to be a safe place to land into sadness or melancholy, but is also (potentially) a container for Spiritual growth.
William H. Gass in his 1976 book “On Being Blue” writes that;
"Color is consciousness itself, color is feeling," Blue he writes, is "the color of interior life".
It is this capacity for interiority that is much needed now as we face all manner of existential risks, not the least of which is the delicate fabric of our climate.
In fabric itself, Nicola Sheehan’s long flowing Cyanotypes push that photographic medium to its limit, with a literal embodiment of our human form caught like an embryonic fossil in a blue gel, for future generations to ponder.
Other works like the paintings of Angela Gilmour ask us to reflect directly on the Arctic vista that we are losing-as-we-look. Yet they also hold their own space as pure landscape observations.
The land is physically present in both the paper-clay bowls of artist Bridget Flannery and the fabrics and weave of Ceadogán Rugmakers, while Denis O’Reardon’s photorealist paintings ask us (via pithy quotes) to consider our own existential relativity.
It’s hard not to feel some sense of hope though, as we look upon Eadaoin’s new series, which seem to suggest Rita Connolly’s “Ripples in the Rockpool”, or her serendipitously perfect “I want to dance in the blue, blue, blue”.
That particular painting was made and was waiting for this exhibition, before the idea, title or theme for the show was even chosen. If that doesn’t confirm some sense of fate, narrative, or hidden meaning in the systems around us, then what could?
Might we not derive from the “held-space” of this exhibition some sense of a co-created story that projects forward into a new future?
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Curated by Dermot Browne. (085)2053717
@cranevisualart dermotbrowneartist@gmail.com
14th September - 4th November.
Opening event with words from Dr. Tara Shine Thursday 21st September, 6 - 8pm.
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NICOLA SHEEHAN / DENIS O'REARDON / ANGELA GILMOUR / EADAOIN GLYNN / CEADOGÁN RUGMAKERS / BRIDGET FLANNERY / LIUDMILA KALINKA
BÉIBHINN MOORE / ANITA GEANEY / DERMOT BROWNE
