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Sep 13th

Martina O’Brien’s Expanse Closing This Week

Martina O'Brien: Expanse, currently showing at the upstairs gallery

This body of work is about the internal and external landscape/seascape and the relationship between both. The work is itself a unique hybrid of painting and emotion. It is made up of layers of paint and mixed media and there is a contradiction between the actual and the inner which is emphasized by the three-dimensions that this layering produces.

The internal landscape – beneath the skin and within the psyche, is the artist’s inspiration. Light from the outside world refracts through a mosaic of experiences, paints fractals of light and colour, patterns within. Darkness, its counterpoint, has its place within providing weight and substance. Its hues echo the recessive, retrograde and painful – allowing a more nuanced experience. The internal landscape is never simply a reflection of what is seen, never a reproduction of the world as is. Rather, it is how we organise our experiences and sensations, and how we choose to engage in the world as we understand it; it is what defines us.

Martina’s work takes a form that challenges traditional ideas of what seascapes and landscapes should look like. Martina says of her work – ‘In my work boundaries blur and definition is understated; but the balance is never lost. My studies in photography have led me to the point where I can deliberately manipulate structure to achieve my desired result, by shifting the focus from the external to the internal.’
Exhibition Details

Opening hours: Monday–Friday 10am–7pm, Saturday 2pm–7pm

For sales or further information on this or subsequent shows, contact the Arts Office on (056) 7794138 niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie

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