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Hi All,
Beginning on January 17th, I'll be running an 8-week Drawing a Breath – mindfulness and drawing – series of workshops in The National Gallery on Merrion Square. The workshops will open with a link to the annual Turner watercolours exhibition (you'll recall these stunning paintings only come out once a year to brighten our darkest month). We will also be looking at the warm skies of Canaletto while doing our drawings – peppered with brief moments of mindfulness to heighten our perceptions and relax our shoulders.

Hope you can join us. There's more information on The National Gallery website https://www.nationalgallery.ie/ or the PDF link of this season's brochure  canaletto_drawing_brochure.pdf.  
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Hope to see you there!

EVENT DETAILS
Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/08/2018 - 19/09/2018
10:00 am - 4:30 pm

​Location
Watergarden Gallery

A group exhibition by INEX artists Nick Bayne, Gay Brabazon, Bonnie Kavanagh, Serena Kitt, Deborah Hewson, Marie Morrow, Pilib Mac an Bháird, Aoibhinn O’Dea, Mags O Dea (RIP) and Mette Sofie Roche, curated by Beth O’Halloran.
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The artists in the INEX collective met while attending NCAD. They have come together in this exhibition in a communal howl to call our distracted selves back to NOW. An acute awareness of the urgency to be present to this moment chimes with the Japanese aesthetic, wabi-sabi – a celebration of the fleeting, the fading and the imperfect.

“Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness – delicate traces, faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness, the inconspicuous and overlooked details, the minor and the hidden, the tentative and ephemeral.” – Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi For Artists, Poets, Philosophers and Designers.

Through photography, painting, fiber and 3-D work, the artists ask us to engage with the clarity of mind that was employed in the work’s making.

​On May 26th, 5 UK literary agents will meet with 5 emerging Irish writers, selected from over 300 entries. I have been selected as the sole participant to join a workshop to meet Ivan Mulcahy of the London literary agency MMB Creative in a one-to-one session as part of the How to Get Published Conference.

by Artists L9 Collective - A Collective of emerging visual artists based in Dublin, Ireland

Event Details

• Opening night: Friday 20th April 6 pm - 8:30 pm
• Open to the Public: 21 April - 23 April
• Hours: 10 am – 6 pm   (closes 5 pm on Monday 23 April)
• Free admission
• Exhibition locations:
  • ​Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studio is located on the corner of Temple Bar Square, Studio 6 may be accessed from the side entrance to the gallery on Frownes St Lower

​Essay accompanying exhibition –
In her short story, The Midnight Zone, writer Lauren Groff expands on the correlations between the darkest band of sea life and our most vulnerable human states. Here, the narrator, with a head injury, is speaking with her young sons:
 
They told me about the sunlight, the twilight and the midnight zones – the three depths of water, where there is transparent light, then a murky, darkish light, then no light at all … (And there is) a tornado of air which stretches from the midnight zone, where the fish are blind, all the way up to the birds.
 
For this exhibition, Beneath the Surface, there is a collective dipping into the deepest undercurrents by all five artists – David Glassey, Linda Hederman, Jennifer Hennessy, Daniela Monza and Sinead O’Connor.  Although Hennessy is the only artist in the group who directly utilizes underwater imagery, Monza, O’Connor, Glassey and Hederman all explore the tension between the seen and the unseen.
 
Monza, Hederman and Hennessy consider conscious and subliminal states – desire, identity, anxiety, muffled memory; whereas Glassey and O’Connor nod to more physically tangible processes such as man’s stamp on the landscape and the concept of marking time.
 
A common dialogue in the work is the bridge between a solid reckoning and human vulnerability. Through their unified explorations, these artists go beneath the surface and each shines a torch at even the most opaque places. 
– Beth O'Halloran

 See you there!

I'm looking forward to giving a public talk on my practice as a visual artist in the Hugh Lane Gallery on March 21st at 11 a.m.

See you there!