Future Exhibitions
August - Peter Zoeller: Portraits
Peter lived in Dublin in the 1980’s and did a lot of walking around the city. On Peter’s travels he noticed a strength and an inner dignity on people’s faces that he had not seen anywhere else and so started his ‘on the spot’ street photography with the people of Dublin. Peter worked with a 35mm camera up until the 1990’s when he changed over to the larger format of 6x6. This change in format brought about a change in the way he photographed people. The gritty intimacy of the 35mm was replaced by a more subtle form of storytelling.This exhibition is a retrospective of some of Peter’s portrait work over the years and provides the viewer with a fascinating insight into the lives of his diverse subjects.
Peter Zoeller was born in the Westerwald Region of Germany, but is now based in Tahilla, Co. Kerry. He has lived in Ireland for the last 31 years. His work has been published by Insight Ireland postcards and in 1987 he won the Sunday Independent Irish Life Arts award for photography.
http://www.peterzoeller-photo.com/
September - The Templenoe Art Group: Joyful Art
'Dancing Ladies' by Joyce Hughes
The Templenoe Art Group began in 2009 at the Templenoe Community Centre as a continuation of the FETAC art classes held at the Adult Education Centre, Kenmare. These classes were under the tuition of Joy Mitchell who continues to guide and inspire all of the students who are participating in the exhibition. Joy's encouragement and skills have inspired the group to hold this exhibition of their artworks.
The exhibition will showcase the wide range of media used and the diversity of talent within the Templenoe Art Group.
Exhibition Launches on Saturday the 3rd of September at 1pm - All Welcome.
October - Vida Pain
A collection of cropped urban and abandoned mechanical objects that are sourced from an exploration of local towns and villages form the basis of Vida's paintings. Dramatic angles of facades, irrelevant to their environment, often exaggerated in scale and colour. The finished pieces, although similar in theme present an array of structure and formal composition. The subject matter often becomes incidental during the creative process that finally renders the finished image unrecognizable as to its geography. However, once installed the effect of journey is created, fleeting glimpses of the ordinary remain in our subconcious. The unexpected views and aspects that evolve allow the subjects to emerge and reveal hidden depths.
Exhibition Dates and Launch TBC
November - Una Gildea & Paul MacCormaic: Familiar
Una Gildea 'Carmel'
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Paul MacCormaic 'The Mother I Actually Have'
In 'Familiar', Gildea and MacCormaic ask the question, what is the effect of constant exposure to media images of celebrities, politicians and other public figures? Does their ubiquity imply familiarity? Their lives are played out in glossy magazines and TV programmes to the extent that we feel we know them as much as our real friends and family. Family and friends are easily recognized. They are familiar to us. But are these high profile people even more familiar?
Una Gildea's work explores the divide between what is familiar in the traditional sense and familiar through the mass media. She paints intimate portraits, close up, to emphasise familiarity with a focus on the mouth and eyes. Friends and family are painted in the same way as the politicians or other well-known people. the result is a series of 'familiar' portraits, a painted photo album of people we recognize, whether we know them or not.
Paul MacCormaic takes images from household packaging and advertisements that are so commonplace that we identify with them as an extended global family. These ubiquitous images are appropriated and painted on a larger scale. Taken out of their context and put to work in a humorous quirky mix-up, the viewer is re-presented with a curious blend of homeliness, nostalgia and the hard sell.
Exhibition Dates and Launch TBC
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