Sheenagh Geoghegan (19th Jan

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Fenton Gallery: Sheenagh Geoghegan (19th Jan - 8th Feb)

Sheenagh Geoghegan: 19th Jan - 8th Feb 2007

The Fenton Gallery's 2007 programme will begin with an exhibition of new paintings by Tipperary-based artist Sheenagh Geoghegan.

There has been huge interest in Sheenagh Geoghegan's work ever since she graduated from the Crawford College of Art in 2003, where she was awarded 'Student of the Year'. As the invited artist at Éigse, Carlow in 2004 and 2006, she was flagged by Aidan Dunne in the Irish Times as 'highly promising'.

Geoghegan, who lives and works in Tipperary, has been in many group shows and has also been selected to exhibit at the Wexford Opera Festival for the past three years. However this will be her first one-person exhibition in a commercial gallery. Her work is represented in various private collections in Ireland and also in the public collections of University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology.

Geoghegan owes much of her hypothesis to the philosophy of the east, the delicate balance between light and dark, translucence and opacity, action and reflection. Geoghegan's paint handling shows a fine maturity. The paintings emerge from a linear, quite formal basic structure. Subsequent layers of surface texture and colour animate this rigidity, perhaps similar to how life experience and memories individualise the routines and structures of all our lives.

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