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IN/VISIBLE

Venue: Limerick Printmakers Gallery, 4 Robert Street

Date: 19th August –9th September

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery are delighted to present ‘IN/VISIBLE’ new work by Eva McCauley.

IN/VISIBLE is an installation of ghost-like apparitions that seem to hover over and around more tangible landscape images, suggestive of the presence of people from the past. The images are hand-pulled prints (monotypes and lithography) that have been digitally captured and enlarged and printed on transparent fabric scrims with a large format Agfa Aquajet Printer.

McCauley’s work deals with the fragility of the human condition, exploring the relationship between visibility and invisibility. Her work deals with memory, both the subjective and the collective. Her concern, though, is not the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering, an act which renders past experiences as ephemeral, and constantly in flux, resulting in works which themselves perpetually shift, their images lyrical, ghostlike, and ethereal.

During Her last two artist residencies in Cill Rialaig, Co.Kerry (2007, 2009) she became aware of the invisible but tangible presence of the people who inhabited this area in the past. There are traces of people’s past lives within the landscape, and I wanted to give them a visual presence, by creating larger-than-life size faces printed on transparent fabric scrims.

Her experiences at Cill Rialaig had a powerful impact on her work. ‘For a month I lived (and painted) in a restored pre-famine cottage perched on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Because of its proximity to the sea, the continual movement of the wind pushed the clouds over the unsettled skies, and the quality of the light in this place was extraordinary. I became interested in the people who lived in this village before it was abandoned in the 1960’s. There is a strong and all-pervasive sense of history in this place because of the archeological remains: miles of old stone walls, inscribed stones and crosses, oratories and ruins of cottages. I was living in a restored stone building that was lived in by people who not only survived the potato famine of the 1840’s, but also the harsh and challenging elements; the storms coming from the Atlantic in the winter must have been brutal. The presence of these people was tangible, and I wanted to give them a visual presence in this exhibition.‘

Eva McCauley is a painter and printmaker living near Damascus, Ontario, Canada. She studied visual art at the Ontario College of Art and Design, receiving an O.C.A.D. diploma in drawing & painting (1983), a B.F.A. from University of Guelph (1994) and a M.F.A. from University of Waterloo (1996). Her work is included in collections in Canadian Embassies all over the world, and 5 of her monotypes are part of a boxed set collection of Canadian figurative art (“Canadian Figurative Artists in Berlin”) sponsored by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. McCauley is the recipient of many awards and scholarships, including the W.O. Forsythe Painting Award (1983), Bronfman Printmaking Award (1993), Warner Lambert Printmaking Scholarship (1994) as well as numerous Ontario Council Project Grants. She is a part-time faculty member in the Fine Art Department at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada.

The exhibition will run until 9th of September. For further information on this exhibition, please contact Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery at the details below. The gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5.30pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm.

Aine Scannell September 20, 2010 at 12:36 am #

hello there I just came across your printmakers website by chance but its so good to encounter this. I am from Ireland though have lived away from it for a long time now. Ray Henshaw set up a Ning community for Irish based printmakers (Inkspot) but it moved very very slowly. People did’nt seem all that enthusiastic and not very open. Some were OK though.

It seems to have gone dead now that Ning are charging fees having allowed people to build up communities. The only one that is secure now is called “Printmakers Universe” Its on ning.com which Mike booth set up. Are you a printmaker? You could join on there – if you do be sure and drop by and say hello on my page on there.

Anyway it is good to be able to see what’s going on with printmaking in Ireland through your website. Are you letting people know this is here?

Best wishes with it. Its a pity you don’t have a form for people to be emailed out when you add a new listing – I will add you to my RSS feed but I am not so good with that stuff….even though I run 3 blogs, one of which is called tradigital printmaking which looks at printmakers who combine traditional techniques with digital in their output.

http://hybriddigitaltraditionalprints.blogspot.com/

aine@ainescannell.com

bye for now

Aine Scannell

based in Scotland near Edinburgh

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