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Past Exhibitions

Diane Henshaw

Reclaiming Space

17-05-2007 - 16-06-2007

The lemonstreet gallery is delighted to host a solo show of new paintings by Northern Irish artist Diane Henshaw

The Exhibition will run from 17^th May 2007 until 16^th June 2007

Henshaw was awarded a residency to the Sanskriti Kendra Foundation in India on a Resartis & Tyrone Guthrie Centre International Exchange for artists during January 2006 and this is the resulting body of work.

Diane Henshaw graduated with her Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast in 1995 and with her Masters in Fine Art from UUB in 2000 - she now lives and works both as a Visual Artist and as the Arts Officer for Fermanagh District Council. Originally from Co. Antrim, Henshaw practiced in Belfast for just under a decade before moving to Co. Fermanagh.

Henshaw deals with the abstract and has an obsession with searching for the perfect line - her work, known for its paired down lines and formulated composition has developed to a new entourage of blasting hues and tones using a plethora of line, print, collage & form. Henshaw is synonymous for her use of gestured line and process work and focuses on the apparent, the banal and diary stylized method of dealing methodically with the abstract.

In the artists’ own words:

‘During my time spent at the Sanskriti Kendra Foundation I found the location really inspirational and the culture of India a great fresh new dynamic to introduce into my work. The residency itself is simplistic but very adequate. The facilities at the Kendra include an excellent comprehensive library with books on contemporary art practice in India and the History of Indian art. The library also covered Western Art and artists books and publications left by resident artists since the beginning of Sanskriti Kendra.

Mr O.P. Jain, who runs Sanskriti, is a patron for the arts in India. There were visitors from all over the world representing various arts centres, being entertained and toured around the 6 acre site at Sanskriti. They were all, like myself, impressed by the very high standards at the centre. India for sure is a place to go, to not only find yourself spiritually, but to also be fed culturally with a full visual feast of the wildest, self perpetuating environment that an artist could ever wish for.’

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Meditation

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