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Desmond Shortt January 28th - February 20th 2004 The work of Tipperary based artist, Desmond Shortt, will show at the Fenton Gallery from January 28th to February 14th. Educated at the Limerick College of Art and Design, Shortt has been exhibiting throughout Ireland since the early 1990’s. In 2003 Shortt exhibited at the Market House Arts Centre, Monaghan and the Chris Doswell Gallery, Limerick. This show will consist of a series of 20 new paintings which deal with the of the vulnerability of men in the interaction of the sexes, where something like sex meets something like death. In these playful, exuberant paintings Desmond Shortt conjures a rich, symbolic, inner world. There is an intense romanticism with an aftertaste of decay. Something dangerous lurks beneath their playful seductiveness. The landscapes are a vibrant stage where mythic characters play out their allotted roles -their drama is luxuriant and doomed. “ All of these landscapes are maternal; fertile, womb-dark and smothering… it is the wilderness of the physical world unconquered by man, or the creative mind unbound by regimen, or the emotional world of reason. The flickering man is exposed to titanic, turbulent forces.” In pieces such as ‘The Birdcage’ Shortt presents us with scenes where Man is so over-powered by the sensuality of Woman that he is represented, not in his true form but as an animal, which further emphasizes Man’s vulnerability. “The woman inhabits her full powers, both for her own enjoyment and the attention of the Man. She is the incarnation of all his fantasies. Her incarnation is so powerful that the Man catches fright and steps outside his own desires. He becomes a mouse.” This is Desmond Shortt’s first solo show in Cork. Exhibitions of his work will be held in four other venues throughout Ireland in 2004. Vaults ‘Made in China’ – series of media screenprints. Paul LaRoque is a graduate of the Crawford College of Art and Design and received an MA from the University of Ulster in 1997. Paul was an artist in residence at Seacourt in 1999 and in 2000 completed an MSc in Multi Media Technology at UCC. “My work exists within and is rooted firmly in a history of popular culture image making. Through printmaking, I examine the contemporary need for detachment and forms of escapism in creating inspirational and pseudo- nostalgic works.” |
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