Close to Hand
dal 22/7/2010 al 8/10/2010
Segnalato da
Lorraine Burrell
Gary Coyle
Cleary + Connolly
Katie Holten
Nick Miller
Collette Nolan
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Dawn Williams
22/7/2010
Close to Hand
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
The exhibition focuses on investigations and processes of 8 artists who continue to invoke the personal and physical relationship of their surroundings within their practice. The show celebrates the creative impetus that is the familiar and the overlooked within our everyday context. Contemporary: The Cooper Penrose Collection: paintings, furniture, ceramics, books, and other items, gives a unique insight into the cultural life of a leading 'Merchant Prince' of 18th century Cork.
Curated by Dawn Williams
Within the current economic downturn, the media’s concentration on the home as a symptom and symbol places an incontrovertible focus of the relationship between dwellers and buildings. The habitat in which we reside and its extended environment dualistically offers opportunity and restriction, being a potential centre for comfort and conflict, rituals and reverie and a site for rich aesthetic exploration.
‘Close To Hand’ focuses on investigations and processes of eight artists: Lorraine Burrell; Gary Coyle; Cleary + Connolly; Katie Holten; Nick Miller; Collette Nolan and Nathalie du Pasquier who continue to invoke the personal and physical relationship of their surroundings within their practice. Exploring and exposing the blurring or ‘entanglements’[1] between life and its environs, the exhibition celebrates the creative impetus that is the familiar and the overlooked within our everyday context and thereby prompts the viewer to ‘look again’ at the relationship with one’s immediate surroundings.
Contemporary:
The Cooper Penrose Collection
Donated to the Crawford Art Gallery by John and Helena Mooney 2008
The Cooper Penrose Collection, consisting of paintings, furniture, ceramics, books, and other items, gives a unique insight into the cultural life of a leading 'Merchant Prince' of 18th century Cork. Cooper Penrose (1736-1815) owned manufacturing enterprises in both Waterford and Cork, including factories where fine cut-glass decanters, chandeliers and drinking glasses were made by skilled craftsmen. The family also imported timber and was involved in property development in both cities. Woodhill House in Montenotte was the family home in Cork. Now demolished, the house was once an important centre for the patronage of the arts.
The Exhibition is displayed in the Crawford Art Gallery's 18th. Century Rooms, now renamed The Penrose Rooms.
Image: Lorraine Burrell, Pictures from a Family Album, 2007 © the artist & Third Space Gallery, Belfast
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place, Cork - Ireland
Open Hours: Monday – Saturday: 10.00 – 17.00, Thursday - 20.00
(Closed Bank Holidays & Sunday)
Admission Free