ATMOSPHERES: 1
Drawing deCentered - Felicity Clear, Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh
Exhibition Residency 2023
Exhibition: Friday 24th February- 15th April 2023
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim.
Exhibition Statement:
Through diverse and expanded fields of drawing practices, Drawing deCentered explores Manorhamilton through a multi-perspective lens where the concept of Atmospheres is considered as 'Condition', 'Matter' and 'Affect'. Clear explores the micro local atmospheric conditions in Leitrim, O’Toole’s engages with atmospheres as spatialised feelings which register as ‘emotional vibrations through our felt bodily sense, and Walsh queries how we imagine and design spatial qualities for the city, countryside and wider landscape and the atmospheres they create.
Back wall: Felicity Clear - Air. Back (R) wall: Kiera O’Toole - Felt Map Manorhamilton. Floor: Mary-Ruth Walsh - installation shot of Eight Angry Films, Cap-a-City 2, Plastic Utopia, marker on lightbox and found packaging, (2023). Wall (R): Mary-Ruth Walsh - The Absence of Use, acrylic on canvas, (2023)
Installation shot of ATMOSPHERES: 1 (L) to (R) Plastic Utopia, plaster and jesmonite cast from found packaging, wood and lightbox (2023). Cap-a-City 2, marker on lightbox and found packaging (2023). Eight Angry Films marker on lightbox and found packaging (2023).
BEYOND DRAWING 2
curated by Arno Kramer
Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard, Mary-Ruth Walsh
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre 23 July to 8 September 2022
Opening with guest speaker Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
A publication designed by Oonagh Young, featuring an essay by writer and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith just published!
Installation image of Beyond Drawing II, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre. Left to right: Drawing for E.1027, pencil and watercolour on paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2022; Model for E.1027, plaster, 10 x 12 x 42 cm, 2022; Still Life, pencil and watercolour on paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2019; A Silent Space in the Turning World, pencil, watercolour, pure pigment on and oil on prepared paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2019
Installation image of Beyond Drawing II, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre. Left to right, Mary-Ruth Walsh's A Silent Space in the Turning World; on the back wall, monumental work by Kiera O’Toole, titled, Weaved Drawing from reworked drawings, ink, acrylic, graphite on paper, dimensions 500cm x 500cm x 20cm; right image is a Perspex vitrine holding Mary-Ruth Walsh's Roadside Anthropocene Object, a readymade consumer packaging. It creates a double take with the drawing-painting of the same name, see below.
Title: Roadside Anthropocene, pencil, watercolour, and acrylic on paper and found object in Perspex vitrine, 70 x 100 cm, 2022
Title: A Silent Space in the Turning World, pencil, watercolour, pure pigment on and oil on prepared paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2019
Title: Drawing for E.1027, pencil and watercolor on paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2022 and Model for E.1027, cast plaster from plastic injected found packaging, 10 x 12 x 42 cm, and vitrine, 2022
SKIN DEEP
A National Touring Exhibition, awarded by the Arts Council of Ireland, was exhibited in Wexford Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery and Limerick City Gallery of Art.
The accompanying book 'Skin Deep' has essays by Dr. Yvonne Scott and Katherine Waugh. The book was designed by foldedleaf.ie and was selected as part of the 100 Design Archive 2021 collection! The 100 Archive is a platform for design in Ireland. At the core of their activity is the publication of 100 of the best design projects selected annually by a professional design panel. See the book design here https://www.100archive.com/projects/skin-deep. The book 'Skin Deep' is in the Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, and in the Irish Embassy of Ireland in Paris
Some of these works were acquired by Wexford Arts Centre and Stadtsparkasse Wüppertal.
SKIN DEEP
Through collage, film and sculpture/installation, Walsh extends her interest in architecture and explores skin as substance and metaphor. Skin Deep was commissioned by Wexford Arts Centre. This is a new direction for Walsh’s obsession with architecture. Through the medium of film, collage and sculpture, Walsh explores skin’s parallels to architecture. Using Arnold Bocklin’s ‘The Isle of the Dead’ (1883) as a reference, SKIN DEEP brings us to an imaginary island, a medical-tourism destination for the pursuit of the perfect skin.
National Tour of Skin Deep, by visual artist Mary-Ruth Walsh, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Touring Award and Wexford Arts Centre. Running from October – December 2021. Curator Catherine Bowe. Opened by Writer, Filmmaker and Curator Katherine Waugh
The exhibition launched at the Highlanes Gallery in 2020 and travelled to Limerick City Gallery of Art in May/June 2021 and to Wexford Arts Centre December 2021.
Click the image below for a tour of Skin Deep - video sound from the original film Skin Deep
SKIN DEEP explores skin’s parallels to architecture and continues Walsh’s obsession with architecture. Using Arnold Bocklin’s ‘The Isle of the Dead’ (1883) as a reference, SKIN DEEP brings us to an imaginary island, a medical-tourism destination for the pursuit of the perfect skin.
Artist - Mary-Ruth Walsh
Writer - Olivia Fitzsimons
Narrator - Shashi Rami
Video - Sandymount Video
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Strangely Familiar Shades of Gray - a solo exhibition in Rathfarnham Castle 2021
Title: In the Stillness. Medium: Cyanotype on Fabriano. Dimensions: 50x66cm. Date: 2020