Exhibition Opening on Saturday, 13th May – @2pm in the Concourse Gallery
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul”.
French philosopher Simone Weil
The work has evolved by examining the concept of time-consciousness, a strand of thought related to the study of conscious experience. The vast rural landscape of the West of Ireland inspires the work. The final presentation represents a quest for calm in a frenetic world. This quest leads us in search of a tranquil space of peace and stillness.
The paintings are recreated from images photographed during the Winter Solstice. Capturing light and atmosphere is at the core of the work. The magical, fleeting essence of light is encapsulated in the work so that we can contemplate the beauty and intensity of these transient moments a little longer before the temporality of the setting subsides and disappears to time.
Remote places are associated with a quality of reminiscence, a connection to ‘pastness.’ The remoteness and solitude of the images are a direct reflection of the solitude that can be found in such remoteness. The remote is a place out of place and nostalgia is a longing for a time out of time.
The light of the Sun begins a new solar cycle at Winter Solstice. In winter everything lies dormant. Winter Solstice is the great stillness before the Sun’s strength builds, and days grow longer. It is a time of rest and reflection before the awakening and the slow build toward brighter days.
The work is not intended as a representation of a specific place in time but rather to question what it is that attracts us to the imagery in the artwork where we can transcend time and space. Rather than physical rootedness, is it an idealised sense of time rather than place that we seek?
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