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November/ December exhibitions Cormac Boydell and John Graham November 28th - December 20th This exhibition juxtaposes the black, white and muted greys of John Graham’s abstract prints with the expressive and colourful ceramic sculpture of Cormac Boydell. John Graham’s work is characterised by the relationship between opposites, black and white, positive and negative, and the act of drawing through printmaking, which has always been a central element of his work. I’m interested in the contradiction between a certain felicity and lightness that I am trying to achieve and the often painstaking and technically complex methods of achieving it. Based in Dublin, Graham’s work has been widely exhibited including a two person show with Richard Gorman at the Yanagisawa Gallery, Tokyo and solo shows in the Hitsuji Gallery, Niigata and Amaneya Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan and in the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast this year alone. Cormac Boydell is regarded as one of Irelands foremost ceramic artists. His years as a working geologist have made the nature of the materials he uses central to his work and the influence of the rural surroundings of his home in Allihes can be seen in animal forms he creates. Boydell retains an organic and expressive quality in his finished pieces by choosing to use his hands as his only tools. In this show the common thread between all the exhibits will in part arise from a direct connection with the natural world and in addition an infusion with nature that comes from rural living. Some of the current work that I will be exhibiting will be of animals, and though they often start as “life portraits” they evolve into a different being… when we start making, at some point we need to abandon our ideas and enter into the abstraction of colour, form/composition and material, because that’s where the magic seems to come from. |
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