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 Ears of God and Man 1
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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