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Fenton Art Gallery: Colin Crotty, Megan Eustace & Sibyl Montague
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21st June – 13th July 2007
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Colin Crotty, Megan Eustace & Sibyl Montague
21st June – 13th July 2007
All three of these artists share an interest in the figurative, yet each approach this subject in a highly individual manner.
Crotty graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design and later completed his MA at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. He was awarded the Red Mansion Foundation Award (artist in residence, Beijing, China) in 2005 and his work is included in the collections of The Arts Council of Ireland and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in Dublin and in Cork. The figurative scenarios in Crotty’s recent work are personal interpretations of situations from everyday life. Familiar circumstances are displaced and emerge within a stage-like environment. And so it is intended that the viewer arrives at multiple meta-narratives or stories within stories allowing the images to suggest some of the fictions of quotidian life.
Megan Eustace's beautiful works on paper remain focused on the human figure. Some of the pieces in this collection observe and present the model moving around; others present the subject in states of acceptance with the absence of inner turmoil. She is a most sublime draughtsperson of the human form. A former graduate from the Crawford College of Art and Design, where she now teaches life drawing, Megan is also teaches life drawing at the RHA, Dublin and is a chairperson and member of the Backwater Artists Group in Cork. She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland, including solo shows at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Fenton Gallery, Cork and The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin. She has also exhibited at Temple Bar Galleries and the RHA in Dublin. The Sunday Tribune listed Megan Eustace among the top twelve emerging Irish artists. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Butler Gallery, OPW and The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
Sibyl Montague’s, series of figurative drawings on paper are based on home video- freeze frames and personal photos. There is a primal feeling to her drawings, partly achieved through her use of watered down inks and watercolours. The multiple juxtaposition of imagery (mainly figures and lonely landscapes) begins to unfold into a fragmented and fractured narrative. Born in Cork, where she grew up, Sibyl graduated from Limerick College of Art and Design in 2003. Her work was selected for the C2 exhibition at the Crawford Municipal Gallery and RHA annual show in 2005. This year she participated in ‘Cead in China’, an exhibition of Irish Art in China and her animation shorts have recently been purchased by the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania. Sibyl currently lives and works in London.
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Colin Crotty, The end of the day,
oil on linen,
42 x 46cm
SOLD
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