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Past Exhibitions

Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Debbie Godsell

Idyll

25-10-2007 - 22-11-2007

Debbie Godsell & Siobhan Fitzpatrick

“IDYLL”

An exhibition of new works by Irish artists Debbie Godsell & Siobhan Fitzpatrick, two artists with distinctive individual styles. Through the medium of paint each artist has created images of an “ideal” almost surreal Ireland.

The show has an impressive range in both the content and form which characterises each artist’s approach.

Debbie Godsell is a thirty four year old full time artist and teacher who lives & works in Macroom, Co. Cork.

For this exhibition Debbie was inspired by the rural landscape in Macroom, although not in the way you might expect. She describes her current work as being “specifically ‘Irish’ in appearance, using plenty of shamrocks, rainbows and milkmaids and other ostensibly ‘twee’ irish iconography… creating an idyllic, romantic and unreal Ireland, where the sun always shines in summertime and politics, finances and heavy rain are vanquished”. Godsell’s engaging and beautiful multi-panelled canvases resemble very tactile patchwork quilts. Currently, her work is collected by the OPW, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank, Ulster Bank, National Bank of Paris and Cork and Dublin Universities & various private collections.

Siobhan Fitzpatrick lives & works in Co. Meath where she uses the landscape as a conduit to examine our state of being. She observes the alteration in the landscape brought about by changes in light and atmosphere. Siobhan’s work is rooted in the space between day and night; this relates to a general sense of unrest, of something imminent on the horizon.

This feeling of apprehension directs Siobhan as an artist to examine the inherent sense of dread, morbidity and insignificance that comes with the dying of the light. “This ‘space between’ where the benign becomes menacing and the last fingers of light cling to the land is the place that occupies my work”. This is a continuing investigation of psychological and emotional response to rural surroundings.

While this work references the traditional landscape, it also seeks to subvert it in meaning and intent. These paintings are worked slowly, layering paint while trying to retain a resonance from each stage of the painting. This is an ongoing theme that has preoccupied Siobhan throughout her development as an artist.

The show was opened by Catherine Marshall, Senior Curator: Head of Collection at The Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 25^th October 2007.

The Exhibition will run from the 25^th October to 22^nd November 2007.

For more information please contact catherine@lemonstreet.com

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