Aug 19 - Sep 5
25 Lennox Street
Portobello, Dublin
Over the past year O’Hara’s work has evolved from structured screen prints of environments to a more elusive and intuitive representation of landscape. In March 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland caused studios to be closed compelling artists to re-examine their practices and how they make work.
O’ Hara was no exception and took the opportunity to expand her knowledge base and exp
Over the past year O’Hara’s work has evolved from structured screen prints of environments to a more elusive and intuitive representation of landscape. In March 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland caused studios to be closed compelling artists to re-examine their practices and how they make work.
O’ Hara was no exception and took the opportunity to expand her knowledge base and exp
Over the past year O’Hara’s work has evolved from structured screen prints of environments to a more elusive and intuitive representation of landscape. In March 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland caused studios to be closed compelling artists to re-examine their practices and how they make work.
O’ Hara was no exception and took the opportunity to expand her knowledge base and experiment with new processes and techniques in order to remain creative. This combined with the lack of interaction with landscape over the past year has pushed O’Hara to produce a new body of work. Presented as a dreamlike journey through unfamiliar jungles, this new work emphasises the longing felt by many throughout the pandemic to submerge oneself within the landscape. O’ Hara generously grants the viewer access to her own experiences allowing them to explore and experience new while highlighting the necessity of the landscape and our obligation to protect it. The work depicts
lush and verdant, fantasy landscapes that evoke a sense of the sublime, nostalgia and wanderlust through immersive paintings, vivid paper works and ceramic vessels. These imagined paradises exist outside of any particular time or space allowing a more visceral experience that creates a sense of reverie and suspended sensation. The work explores the relationship between desire and dreams, culminating in ferociously lucid, imaginary landscapes.
The work conjures the memory of a landscape rather than a specific site. The scale of the work draws the viewer into the landscape and by proxy into the memory. The spontaneity of the marks flowing over the surface suggest movement within the landscape itself, further immersing the viewer in the fantasy. All the while, colour and abstraction
All of these works are sold framed or unframed as per the exhibition display. Archival framing practice and materials have been used when framing all artworks. The price of framing as per the exhibition is included. Alternative framing options are also available but are subject to additional costs.
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