RE:Place

(Exhibition curated by Claire Halpin and exhibited in Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet and An Chultúrlann, Béal Feirste 2002, Selection exhibited in Impact-Encuentro Santander and at Coastguard Station, part of Imagine Festival, Waterford 2019)

Re: Place maps and documents these ever changing shifts in rural Ireland.The selected body of work in Re: Place takes a fresh look at and draws attention to social and demographic changes in rural Ireland. The artist explores themes of place – land, home, location, placing and replacing. People come and go and leave their personal, historical and cultural marks on the landscape in both the natural and developed environment -  marks that  can be seen in buildings - new or old or abandoned, be they homes or shops, places of religious practice, restaurants, take-aways, factories, building sites or wind farms. The new monuments of contemporary society – the huge houses, gated communities, modernised industrial infrastructure, all add to the metamorphosing deep map of the land.

This exhibition drew together different strands of work -print, painting and video

From Royal Postboxes and Castles to Windfarms and Takeaways

  • Changing Times, Etching and Gold Leaf

  • A Sliver of Light, oil on paper, 58 x45cm framed.

  • Reminders of things past, Etching

  • Silence, Etching

  • Hayless Barn

  • Stones, The Secrets Within, Etching

  • Re: Place, Etching

  • Oil Painting on Paper

  • Until the last embers died, Oil on Canvas

  • Stories while waiting, Oil on Canvas

  • Let no-one see what lies beyond, oil on paper, 58 x45cm framed.

  • Níl aon tinteán .., oil on paper, 58 x45cm framed

  • Look Back, Oil on Paper, 45 x 58cm, framed

  • Changing Times 2, Etching and Gold Leaf