Finola Graham
Mary Queally
Diana Rock
Kristy Verenga
Rita Wobbe
Fiona Woods
July 10 – August 1, 2025
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 10, 6.00-8.00pm
Featuring Live Music by Los Tembas
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.00pm
Burren College of Art | Co. Clare | H91 H299
+353 (0)65 7077200
Presence brings together the work of six artists from north Clare and south Galway who primarily focus on painting. Through the language of abstraction and figuration the fetured works address elements of landscape and abstraction alongside the immediacy of contemporary social issues. Each artist has a unique approach to the materiality of paint and an acute engagement with the painting process. In particular, colour forms a unifying framework, building a dialogue between abstraction and figuration.
Embodied in the title of the exhibition, Presence asks us to consider the question of space. The lived space of the Burren and its surrounding environs, the abstract representation of imagined space within painting that invites speculation, and the harsher contemporary reality of space in terms of displacement and forms of sociological control. Paint as a language that remains vital and malleable, caught as it is between freedom and control, binds the plurality of this subject matter. In the hands of each of these artists the power of paint remains fluid and transformative, a dynamic vehicle for building narrative, exploring and questioning the world around us.
For further information please visit: https://www.burrencollege.ie/presence/
Image: Rita Wobbe
