Curatorial Note:
Thanks for visiting our online exhibition and thank you to the wonderful artists involved.
Despite being the first generation to be almost entirely removed from the land, the year we've gone through has seen most of us turning back to nature; As the adage goes-life imitates art & so too does art imitate life and as such artists reflect this renewed respect for the natural world-sadly in depletion since the advent of industrialization-as their responsive practices react to the global ecological pandemic within their work.
Works included in ROOT demonstrate this; whether the 'plant plumbing' of Sankeys hybrid subterranean synthz or the uber minimalism of Young British Artist Michael Landys ironically entitled nourishment series, art is a mirror for the collective contemporary consciousness and we are returning to the nature that spawned us and of which we are inextricably still part of.
Winter sees the earth retreat into itself; the energy of the extremities returns to the roots, dormant until the sap rises once again in the spring; for us too, it is a time of introspection, the dark days a time of essential rest, reflection and recuperation so to recharge enough to replenish the effort anew come spring.
ROOT is a reference to this; it is a straight-up myriad metaphor; this year our roots have been rendered raw, either we have been kept from them-those evasive origins or our organism-through enforced social distancing, or have been steeped in them to the extent that they have ravaged relationships to the point of ruin through confinement; either way, the call of the clan has been key & re-cultivated this core connection.
I hope that you enjoy the plethora of 2D, 3D, moving image and audio work here. Please remember where possible to support artists, who have through vocation, the most precarious of professions.
WIth thanks to Leitrim County Council Arts Office & Creative Ireland Leitrim for this initiative.
Be well & remember that this too, shall pass.
~*~
Despite being the first generation to be almost entirely removed from the land, the year we've gone through has seen most of us turning back to nature; As the adage goes-life imitates art & so too does art imitate life and as such artists reflect this renewed respect for the natural world-sadly in depletion since the advent of industrialization-as their responsive practices react to the global ecological pandemic within their work.
Works included in ROOT demonstrate this; whether the 'plant plumbing' of Sankeys hybrid subterranean synthz or the uber minimalism of Young British Artist Michael Landys ironically entitled nourishment series, art is a mirror for the collective contemporary consciousness and we are returning to the nature that spawned us and of which we are inextricably still part of.
Winter sees the earth retreat into itself; the energy of the extremities returns to the roots, dormant until the sap rises once again in the spring; for us too, it is a time of introspection, the dark days a time of essential rest, reflection and recuperation so to recharge enough to replenish the effort anew come spring.
ROOT is a reference to this; it is a straight-up myriad metaphor; this year our roots have been rendered raw, either we have been kept from them-those evasive origins or our organism-through enforced social distancing, or have been steeped in them to the extent that they have ravaged relationships to the point of ruin through confinement; either way, the call of the clan has been key & re-cultivated this core connection.
I hope that you enjoy the plethora of 2D, 3D, moving image and audio work here. Please remember where possible to support artists, who have through vocation, the most precarious of professions.
WIth thanks to Leitrim County Council Arts Office & Creative Ireland Leitrim for this initiative.
Be well & remember that this too, shall pass.
~*~