Two art exhibitions launching in Lismore
Lismore Castle
Two compelling art exhibtions will launch at Lismore Castle Arts on June 14, showcasing works for acclaimed artists.
Laura Fitzgerald is an artist who creates narratives of personal and political reflection in video, drawing, and text, often referencing the artist’s own rural background and general anxieties of international artistic professionalism.
Laura’s work is colourful, playful, and humorous.
Often, handwritten comments and narratives accompany her drawings and paintings, sometimes referencing personal experiences and sometimes pointing to much darker issues.
The work draws connections between climate change and agriculture while exploring the complicated relationships of land ownership and land occupation.
For Lismore, Laura is making new sculptural work alongside a body of work researching the archive of experimental filmmaker Flora Kerrigan.
A screening of Flora’s work will take place on Saturday, July 19, with a live score performed by Peadar-Tom Mercier and Ultan Lavery, of Trá Pháidín.
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene.
For Lismore, Ní Bhriain is presenting Inscriptions VI, an exhibition bringing together new works in tapestry, print and installation.
A large scale tapestry, The Muses V, forms the centrepiece of the exhibition.
The Muses series (2018-25) is a pivotal body of work for the artist, the first created in her now-signature medium of Jacquard tapestry.
The series references archival photographic portraits from the 1850s, from a genre once termed ‘orientalist photography’.
Ní Bhriain works with collage to draw out the darkness behind the fantasy, fusing the portraits with imagery of excavated landscapes and damaged cityscapes.
In this exhibition, Ní Bhriain presents The Muses V in dialogue with sculptural and photographic elements, extending its motifs into a series of new material and pictorial relationships within the space of St. Carthage Hall.
Both exhibitions launch on Saturday, June 14, at St. Carthage Hall and The Mill, Lismore.
