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Fenton Gallery: Martin Gale selects
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Current Exhibition
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From 16th October
The highly respected artist Martin Gale is also a member of several art selection committees including the annual RHA exhibition. His artistic knowledge and awareness makes him the perfect choice to select an exhibition of promising mid career artists for the Fenton Gallery. He has chosen five painters to show along with himself, all of whom share an interest in memory, perception and narrative.
Martin Gale and Stephen Loughman share a realist style. Loughman is more concerned with illusion and creating a narrative which unfolds in the viewer’s imagination. Also working with realism, Jennifer Trouton (who was nominated for this years AIB Prize) bases her work on photographs of domestic interiors - spaces that have been abandoned and are now gently decaying. Her focus seems to be the empty fireplace - previously full of light and heat. (Especially those particularly unloved 1930’s tiled ones.)
There is certainly a surreal other-era atmosphere in David Quinn's figurative paintings. “One can be lulled into a sense of security in the inviting spaces and comforting enclosures – but there is also an implication of the entrapment that seductive environments threaten”. Yvonne Scott, 2006
Paul McKinley's exceptionally detailed paintings and drawings of park scapes are almost forensic in their approach - the surface painstakingly constructed from minute patches of separate colour, reminiscent of pointillism. Earlier this year an exhibition of McKinley’s work was held at the RHA as part of The Nissan Art Project. Drawing on images and information from personal experiences and the media, Diana Copperwhite (winner of this year’s AIB prize) builds up layered surfaces of paint. The images are painted over, partly or completely obliterated, as though imitating the process of memory itself.
Showing concurrently will be an exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based artist, Robert Armstrong. Psychological, political and aesthetic concerns are relevant in Armstrong’s painting practice, as are explorations of biblical, art historical and contemporary sources. These are intriguing, mysterious paintings. A one-person exhibition of his work was held at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery last year with an accompanying catalogue.
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- Robert Armstrong
Foreground, Middleground and Background,
2007,
oil on canvas,
40 x 50cm
SOLD
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