Drawing on the Body
Start Date 6 April 2010
From Drawing on the Body
Threshold - Oil Drawing - 35.5 x 35.5
Exhibition Dates: 12th April – 8th May 2010
Monday – Saturday 10 am – 6pm
Preview: Saturday 10th April 2010
3pm – 5pm
Location: Tallaght Community Arts
RUA RED
Tallaght
Dublin 24
Tallaght Community Arts presents Drawing on the Body an exhibition of new works by artist Bernie Masterson.
This work originated as a collaborative effort between the artist and her mother as a means of relating her body to the natural landscape.
There is a two step approach to the work.
An initial collection of oil drawings deals primarily with the surface of the skin and its evolution over the years in a series of abstract and semi –abstract drawings.
The second part of the series meldes the structural elements of her mother’s medical record with the memories evoked by photographic media documenting landmarks in her life.
The combined effect of the collection forms a narrative that gives visual expression to an inner life, becoming effectively a biography in paint.
Drawing on the Body records a variety of aspects of the aging human body: the palm, the knuckles, the feet, sagging breasts, a series of age marks, a protruding stitched scar in the shoulder – it sounds depressing but the results are beautiful. Maebh O’Regan arts critic
Dublin based, Bernie Masterson was born in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1958. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1982. She has had solo exhibitions with several galleries e.g. The Dolmen Gallery in Limerick, the Dye-house Gallery in Waterford, the Hallward Gallery Dublin, and the Hunt Museum Limerick.
She has also exhibited abroad in The Art Biennial Stockholm, Sweden. Art 95 New York International Art Exhibition New York USA, TregAquarelle, Tregastel, France and the Old Library Gallery in Cardiff, Wales and more recently in Oakland, California, USA
She has several awards and residency from the Arts Council, including the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal Award for painting from the Oireachtais.
Please click on following link to view catalogue: drawingonthebody_web_quality
Please click on the following link for Drawing On The Body video and sound piece http://www.vimeo.com/10716492
For further information please contact Ruth Clancy, Tallaght Community Arts at:
Tel: (01) 452 8180. Email: ruth@tallaght-arts.ie Web: www.tallaght-arts.ie