Curated Exhibitions / Mermaid Arts Centre
1iing heaney
World Without End
Emanating from the artist’s ongoing research into Wicklow’s protected native oak forest, Tomnafinnoge Woods, heaney takes objects from nature and re-presents them as virtual and reimagined artefacts.
She proposes a microcosmic exploration of technological integration in the natural world, reimagining the fruit and seeds of trees and plants as companions to vibrant 3D-printed sculptures rendered in brilliant hypernatural colour, interspersed with germinating acorns from Tomnafinnogue oaks.
Emma Roche with Small Night
Lined Out
21 JAN - 11 MAR 2023
With an idiosyncratic approach to painting encompassing weaving, knotting and knitting, Roche's unorthodox textural paintings are accompanied by a new large-scale commission of hand-screen printed works on paper by Small Night. Small Night is an art and text project by James Merrigan.
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Being ‘lined-out’, according to the Urban Dictionary, refers to the kind of anxiety felt by an assembly line worker. The stress caused by simple tasks and the monotony of “the line” evokes dynamic states of anxiety and comfort, exacerbated by repetitiveness.
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Roche’s preparatory drawings. made quickly and obsessively, are informed by the humdrum of repetitive daily tasks. In contrast, the processes employed by Roche in the knitted paintings are slow and arduous, where long lines of paint are prepared and dried to be used like wool or thread. The ‘should-be’ liquid material is forced to behave in an apparently impossible but measured way.