From June 20th

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Fenton Art Gallery: Rachel Parry

Rachel Parry: From June 20th

This exhibition will mark Rachel Parry's first major solo show in Ireland. Born in Cambridge, England, in 1948 and educated at Goldsmiths College, London, Rachel Parry has lived in Allihies, Beara, Co. Cork, since 1978. The beautiful natural surroundings of the Beara Peninsula have long inspired Rachel's work and that of her husband, ceramic artist, Cormac Boydell.

This work is a collection of musings on death, healing and transformation. As in the artist’s previous work folk mythology is used in some of the pieces as a conduit for ideas - including Adam’s two wives Lilith and Eve depicted as ‘rarities’ from an age before original sin, also the belief held by the Algonquin people that crows are sacred and that their feathers provide protection.

"Each sculpture in this exhibition is a fragment of a story-without-an-end or ‘visual poem’ in which the choice of materials are the words." Many of the materials are richly symbolic in themselves. Such things as spiders’ webs and snake sheds, feathers and wax combine with a very formed, figurative human-made process.

A catalogue on Rachel’s work accompanies this exhibition.

The Call of the Crow (detail)

cast acrylic, bird skull, feathers, net,
360 x 160 x 80mm- feather strip 2600 x 120mms.

The Call of the Crow

cast acrylic, bird skull, feathers, net,
360 x 160 x 80mm- feather strip 2600 x 120mms.

Sometimes Feelings Seem Very Real 1

felted wool, turf, glass, glass and wood case,
595 x 420 x 555mm

Sometimes Feelings Seem Very Real 3 (detail)

felted wool, hair, cotton thread, glass and wood case,
595 x 420 x 555mm

Sometimes Feelings Seem Very Real 3

felted wool, hair, cotton thread, glass and wood case,
595 x 420 x 555mm

Eve

snake sheds, apple wood, clay, synthetic fiber, sand, acrylic paint, glass and wood case,
980 x 610 x 530mm

Eve (detail)

snake sheds, apple wood, clay, synthetic fiber, sand, acrylic paint, glass and wood case,
980 x 610 x 530mm

Is this where self consciousness began?

plaster, sand, paint, bible, glass and wood case,
320 x 390 x 260mm

In the hands of Gaia

litchen, ostrich egg, glass, wax and plaster,
150 x 280 x 170mm

Lilith

owl, snake sheds, wax, wood, coal, bones, glass and wood case,
820 x 670 x 670mm

Lilith (detail)

owl, snake sheds, wax, wood, coal, bones, glass and wood case,
820 x 670 x 670mm

Balance of Mind

iron balance, cast lead crystal skull-caps, poppy seeds,
410 x 300 x 160mm

Memento Mori

clay, gampi paper, graphite, cast glass, wood, mirror,
250 x 370 x 210mm

Memento Mori (detail)

clay, gampi paper, graphite, cast glass, wood, mirror,
250 x 370 x 210mm

Sometimes Feelings Seem Very Real 2

wasp nest, pollen,acrylic, copper, glass and wood case,
595 x 420 x 555mm

The Ears of God and Man 1

bronze, oil paint, gold and copper leaf,
65 x 20 x 15mm each

The Ears of God and Man 1 (detail)

bronze, oil paint, gold and copper leaf,
65 x 20 x 15mm each

Fenton Gallery : Contemporary Irish Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

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