Talbot Gallery Past Events

Daniel Tuomey in conversation with Hannah Fitz

Daniel Tuomey in conversation with artist and curator, Hannah Fitz.

Thursday 6th June, 6-8pm as part of First Thursdays Dublin

Visit INSTRUMENTS: 

http://www.talbotgallery.com/exhibitions-current.php

First Thursdays:

http://www.templebar.ie/Event/First_Thursdays_Dublin

Daniel was the winner of 2012 Talbot Gallery & Studio’s inaugural Most Promising Graduate Award and this show INSTRUMENTS marks the culmination of his residency. The award grants one student the use of a studio space above the gallery for eleven months and a solo exhibition at the end of this term. Moreover it provides the recent college graduate with a support system and the opportunity to observe how more established artists work and earn a living by placing them in a professional creative environment.

Exhibition continues from Friday 24th May until Friday 21st June 2013

MPGA 2013 WINNER ANNOUNCED: The closing of the exhibition will be marked by the announcement of the winner of the Most Promising Graduate Award 2013 and the handing over of the keys to the studio.

Watch video:  https://vimeo.com/66392710
Daniel Tuomey talks about the award, studio life and what's next for his art practice.

INSTRUMENTS Opening Reception

Winner of the Most Promising Graduate Award 2012

INSTRUMENTS by Daniel Tuomey opens on Thursday 23rd May 2013 from 6-8pm. All welcome!

See the Facebook event page!

Daniel was the winner of 2012 Talbot Gallery Studio’s inaugural Most Promising Graduate Award and this show marks the culmination of his residency. The award grants one student the use of a studio space above the gallery for eleven months and a solo exhibition at the end of this term. Moreover it provides the recent college graduate with a support system and the opportunity to observe how more established artists work and earn a living by placing them in a professional creative environment.

The closing of the exhibition will be marked by handing over the keys of the studio to the winner of the Most Promising Graduate Award 2013.

Hear Daniel's thougts on his time here at Talbot Gallery & Studios - click to watch the video!

INSTRUMENTS

You go towards the door of a pub but instead of going in you turn right and go up a flight of stairs. At the top you emerge into a narrow white walled room. There are large windows on your left and a bar on your right. The room is the same shape as the pub below but it is not the same kind of space. Although huddled clusters have formed around stories and pieces of furniture much as they would in a pub.

These clusters are new works by Daniel Tuomey, they are what there is to be seen here. I do not wish to tell you too much about them in advance, but as an elliptical introduction to them let us examine the anomalous rhetorical feature of the above paragraph.

A 'you' has been used. It is an unclear 'you': who exactly does it address? It suffers (or perhaps benefits) from the english language's strange decision to address individuals and groups with the same word. It allows the writer to be disingenuous with you, the 'you' goads you, flirts with you, treats you as if you were the only 'you' it addresses. Even to describe it I must once again employ it.

I apologise for it. It is a particularly blunt instrument.

Daniel Tuomey's works are the result of an investigation of how stories and subjects crystallize and form in relation to objects.  Often these objects are made using formal and aesthetic strategies which are indebted to various 20th century moments and traditions of art and design, and the stories that stick to them range from involved explorations of social history to fleeting glimpses of the subjective status of the artist and the audience in the art-viewing exchange. This current body of work deals in various ways with the coincidence and confluence of the emerging object and the emerging thought.

Daniel Tuomey Graduated with First Class Honours from NCAD Fine Art Painting in 2012, Highly Commended in Visual Culture Thesis.

VISIT Artist Studios 2013

VISIT 2013, Saturday 11th May, Sunday 12th May, is a weekend event which will see artist’s studios organisations all over Dublin city opening their doors to the public. Artists make their artworks in buildings that are scattered throughout the city, and Visit 2013 invites you to enter these usually private spaces, talk to the artists and see their work first hand.

In Dublin City, artist’s studios old and new exist in a variety of buildings including industrial warehouses, Georgian buildings, converted stables and former shop units. You might not be aware that the building on the corner or down the road from your house is actually a hub of artistic activity. If you have ever been curious about what goes on inside an artists studios, Visit 2013 is your chance to find out!

Talbot Gallery and Studios will be open to the public on Sunday 12th May from 12-6pm where our 6 resident artist will welcome visitors to their studios. 

For a sneak preview, have a look into resident Talbot artist, Claire Halpin's studio go to this link:  https://vimeo.com/65050833

For more information visit the website: http://visitstudios.com/                                                                                                VISIT map: http://visitstudios.com/map/

One Year One Day Group Exhibition Opening Reception

The Talbot Gallery & Studios’ Most Promising Graduate Award is presented each year to a graduating student from a third level Visual Arts Practice course in Dublin. The winner is awarded a year-long residency with a free studio, culminating in a solo show.

Scheduled in anticipation of last year’s award winner Daniel Tuomey’s upcoming solo show (‘Instruments,’ May 23^rd – June 21^st), ‘One Year, One Day’ will revisit the shortlisted graduates from 2012; Brendan Fox, Lauralee Guiney, Steven Maybury, Claire McCluskey & Kate Stitt, and journey into their lives and practices, to follow their progress in their first year out of college.

Our ethos at Talbot Gallery & Studios is to support emerging artists, forming the basis behind our Most Promising Graduate Award, which gives a graduating artist a protective and supportive environment to embark on their practice. The aim of the ‘One Year, One Day’ exhibition is to address the students who enter their careers without such environment, who go it alone and of whom there are many. By following up on the graduate students from last year, we wish to showcase their progress in their transition from student to emerging artist, while also highlighting the typical trials and problems faced by young artists in their first year out of college.

Accompanied by a free handbook publication for visitors, featuring interviews with the artists, advice, links and more, this exhibition is aiming to be not only a spotlight for the artists participating, but a tool for all young artists as they embark on their practice.

Individual Artists' Statements -

Brendan Fox:

The abstract and existential nature of theatre has eternally propelled Brendan’s work as an artist. The idea of representing the human condition before an audience through linear or absurd narratives has been both a theatrical and cinematic consummate. Each form enables us to transcend our realities, opening our minds to the possibilities of the alternative, equipping us with transformative notions that may alter our own preconceived ideas of existence. It is these transcendental, transformative notions that inform the work.

http://cargocollective.com/brendanfoxart

Lauralee Guiney:

Lauralee works predominantly in the medium of video but often encompasses photography, performance and large scale installations.
"As we move toward the limit of old age- and that limit is death- we move toward the limit of representation. My work explores the possibility of representation, as it attaches to the human condition, especially at the liminal threshold between life and death. This is part of an ongoing exploration of the human body and the human condition in all it’s variety, intimacy, and vulnerability."

www.lauraleeguiney.com

Steven Maybury: 

Steven’s work is an exploration of material. His works are observations of the continuous nature of matter.  Using a stumble upon approach to find materials to work with, Steven combines locally found objects, alongside materials and items found using the open search on eBay.com. Graphing the materials collected, Steven creates detailed pen drawings, which inform the re-contextualisation of the materials into sculptures.

stevenmaybury.com

Claire McCluskey: 

Claire’s practice is mainly executed through the mediums of drawing, sculpture and installation. Currently exploring ideas surrounding social structures, she considers the condition of social grouping from an architectural and construction-oriented perspective.She is drawn to materials such as fabric and thread for the vocabulary they offer when communicating ideas about social connectivity and the physicality of these materials allows her to create woven and tensile structures in such a way that expresses her perceptions of the construction of social structures.

http://cargocollective.com/clairemccluskey

Kate Stitt:

Kate’s practice explores the temporal nature of human existence and human vulnerability in the face of chronic disease. Through the use of mixed media sculpture, the work looks at the physical degeneration of the body. It is concerned with the deterioration of the human condition and the frailty resulting from this. In an attempt to emulate human skin the work looks at the idea of a barrier of internal vs external (the dermis and the adipose tissue).

Within this current body of work from the last year Kate has been exploring this idea by creating soft biomorphic sculptures that represent the physicality of carrying a dead weight. The work attempts to address the physical body parts, with the use of organic shapes it is meant to be representative of the stomach as well as skin and flesh, revealing an invasion of the body resulting in fragility and mortality. 

katelaurastitt.tumblr.com

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Most Promising Graduate Award 2013 - Open Call

Download here: Graduate Award 2013 Submission Guidelines & Application Form

Following the success of our competition over the last three years, the Talbot Gallery Studios is pleased to announce that we are once again accepting submissions for our Most Promising Graduate Award 2013, open to all 2013 Fine Art and Visual Arts Practice graduates.  The winner of the award shall receive an eleven-month studio residency rent free and upon completion of this, a solo exhibition.

The competition is open to graduating students from the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and the National College of Art and Design. The award shall be presented to an outstanding candidate who is considered to display talent, flair, innovation and potential by Talbot Gallery & Studios.

The winner of the award shall receive a residency within the Talbot Gallery & Studios premises which is located in the heart of Dublin City, on Talbot Street.  The graduate in receipt of this accolade and private studio use shall be instantly transported into a professional setting from which to launch their creative career.  This residency shall last for an eleven-month period running from the beginning of July 2013 until the end of May 2014.

Talbot Gallery & Studios consists of six artist’s studios and a professional, commercial, contemporary art gallery. Five of the six studios are currently occupied by working, professional artists who practice and create art works in varying media and styles.  The sixth studio shall be occupied by the title holder of the Most Promising Graduate Award. The graduate shall thus be thrust into a hive of artistic activity, a home for innovative creation, and a place for original exchange. Here they will work, create and grow as a professional artist. The studio is perfect for the emerging artist with a floor area of 80 square feet. The floor to ceiling height is nine foot. The studio is a very bright interesting creative space conducive to professional artistic practice.

Following the eleven-month stint in the studio, the winner of the award shall be subsequently offered a solo exhibition within the Talbot Gallery. This exhibition shall provide the winner with the opportunity to showcase the work they accomplished during their residency with Talbot Gallery Studios. It will also provide them with a platform to sell their work and take their next career step as they then vacate the studio for the 2014 Award recipient.

Submission guidelines and application forms will be delivered to the colleges in due course and will also be available to download on our website or collected from the gallery.

Artist Talk & Gallery Walk-Through

To coincide with her solo show Fictitious Possibilities, artist Genieve Figgis will be giving an artist talk and inviting the public to take part in a gallery walk-through of her work here in the Talbot Gallery at 12 noon on Saturday 27^th April 2013.

Artist Genieve Figgis has been painting portraits for over 12 years and holds a Masters and Bachelor Degree in Fine Art Painting from NCAD. The artist has a fascination with people and is interested in how they present themselves. Her work has always been about the façade of people.

A portrait shows how people chose to be represented. Living in this digital age however, unflattering images are deleted, and we only get to see perfection. In her work, Figgis engages with what is hidden and feels this to be much more interesting. The work is in response to the idea of portraiture drawing from contemporary and historical resources where the truths are buried and images are fictionalised. The artist loves the opportunity that portrait offers, with its history and its spectacle. Choosing to paint on frame mounted board, the wooden stage becomes a herald for which the narcissism of portraiture allows the artist to manoeuvre the paint. This production of image is an attempt to describe the spectacle.

Having a keen interest in historical drama and theatre, Figgis reads historical fiction novels and loves nothing more than a trip to the National Gallery. Citing it as a place where you can step back in time and experience images from the past, the past being a safer place to be.

Aidan Dunne, visual art critic with The Irish Times, reviewed Genieve Figgis current solo exhibition, Fictitious Possibilities, in ‘The Ticket’ supplement on Friday 12th April 2013, stating that, ‘In her paintings, Dublin-born Genieve Figgis subverts the conventions of portraiture by producing mischievous versions of familiar subjects.  For the exhibit Fictitious Possibilities, Figgis’s images are wicked and disconcerting, yet they are not malicious – in fact, they’re even affectionate.’

Brian Kielt mentioned Genieve Figgis, 'Fictitious Possibilities' exhibition on his blogspot on Sunday 14^th April 2013, here is what he had to say: 'Here I found a painting show by Dublin Artist Genieve Figgis. It was fantastic and Figgis' use of humour in her paint was great! I will definitely be keeping an ear to the ground.'    

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Website: www.genievefiggis.com

Fictitious Possibilities Opening 11th April from 6-8pm

Artist Genieve Figgis has been painting portraits for over 12 years and holds a Masters and Bachelor Degree in Fine Art Painting from NCAD. The artist has a fascination with people and is interested in how they present themselves. Her work has always been about the façade of people.

A portrait shows how people chose to be represented. Living in this digital age however, unflattering images are deleted, and we only get to see perfection. In her work, Figgis engages with what is hidden and feels this to be much more interesting. The work is in response to the idea of portraiture drawing from contemporary and historical resources where the truths are buried and images are fictionalised. The artist loves the opportunity that portrait offers, with its history and its spectacle. Choosing to paint on frame mounted board, the wooden stage becomes a herald for which the narcissism of portraiture allows the artist to manoeuvre the paint. This production of image is an attempt to describe the spectacle.

Having a keen interest in historical drama and theatre, Figgis reads historical fiction novels and loves nothing more than a trip to the National Gallery. Citing it as a place where you can step back in time and experience images from the past, the past being a safer place to be.

Website: www.genievefiggis.com

“There is a paradoxical beauty to Genieve Figgis's outstanding, Dorian Gray-like paintings of celebrities, their glamour curdled and sickly.”– Aidan Dunne, visual arts critic - The Irish Times.

Selected Exhibitions:

2012 - Historical Histories’ Studio 9, West gate , Wexford Town

2012 - NCAD selected MFA Graduates, ‘Boyle Arts Festival’.

2012 - NCAD - MFA Graduate Exhibition, SteamBox’ school street, Dublin 8.

2010 - Boyle Arts Festival, Invited Artist.

2009 - Queen Street Gallery, Belfast.

2007 - Royal Hibernian Academy. Recent Graduates.

Awards:

2004 Hopewire Gallery Bursary

2006 Gorey School of Art Bursary

2007 Sony P.S.P Showcase

Curatorial Call Winner 2013 Announced!

Talbot Gallery & Studios are delighted to announce Lynda Phelan as the winner of our International Curatorial Open Call 2013!

'All Man: The Show' curated by Lynda Phelan will be exhibited in Talbot Gallery in November 2013.

Invited artists - Terence Erraught, Darren Caffrey & Matthew Nevin 

Photography - Gary Kavanagh

 Open Submission: Calling Only Male Artists (more details on this to follow)  

New Axis Opening with Introduction by Dr Medb Ruane

Thursay Feb 7th - 6pm

First Thursdays Dublin is a Temple Bar Cultural Trust initiative that brings together art galleries, cultural and creative spaces opening their doors after hours and offering an extra chance to see art, culture and events in a number of venues between 6 – 8pm on the first Thursday of every month.

Starting off this year's First Thursdays is our group show New Axis at Talbot Gallery & Studios, opening this Thursday 7th February 6-8pm with an introduction by Dr. Medb Ruane, writer and psychotherapist.

New Axis sees artists accustomed to working in two-dimensional media, augment and reshape their practice via the introduction of a new angle, vector or way of viewing.

The work aims to create a sense of additional depth – both physical and emotional – by opening out angles, stretching edges and embracing new touch-points. Artistic disciplines are conflated and exchanged, viewpoints are repositioned and realigned, and relationships with traditional forms deepened.  By introducing these new co-ordinates, the work is pushed into new space, where it gains new shape and new life.

New Axis runs until February 21st.

Visit: First Thursdays Dublin

Fast Moving Consumer Goods Opening

For its Fast Moving Consumer Goods exhibition,Talbot Gallery has invited almost 40 artists to create a new artwork using the stock of the discount shops as a rich seam of inspiration. There are no restrictions on the form the artwork can take other than itmust be predominantly constructed or made from items purchased from a discount shop. We asked artists to be as innovative as possible, to push the boundaries of their usual practice and push the potential of the materials and media for their artwork. As this show is a reflection of the current climate, the pricing of the work will reflectthisconceptaccordingly.

Invited Artists include: Angela Mc Donagh, Emmet Kierans, Felicity Clear, Aisling Conroy, Emma Hogan, Joby Hickey, Blath Ni Mhurchu, Bennie Reilly, Nicky Hooper, Deirdre Hayden, Anne Hendrick, Claire Mc Cluskey, Daria Privalko, Joe Stanley, Margaret O’Brien, Lucinda Jacobs, Julie Merriman, Michelle Considine, Claire Halpin, Jennette Donnelly, Beth O’Halloran, Louise Butler, Mary Noonan, Paul Mac Cormaic. Maree Hensey, Jane Fogarty, Andrew Carson, Cecilia Danell, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Cecilia Bullo, Jennifer Cunningham, Kate Murphy, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Ian-John Coughlan, Madeleine Hellier, Myra Jago & Kate Stitt.

Restless Spaces | Fragile Traces

Capturing the landscape in all its complexity is key to Considine’s work and, focusing on this topic, she looks at the unique and diverse forms found in nature and how extraordinary natural occurrences affect the land and skies around us. A fascination with the power of the natural environment, the continual movement and metamorphosis of the earth, and the consequences of these, are a reoccurring theme throughout her work.

Through a new series of work, Considine focuses on the elements, including occurrences such as the Aurora Borealis, volcanoes, land rifts, mountains, geysers or, simply, the effect of the changing light on the land.  Working in different formats, she strives to create a strong visual dynamic to emphasize the mass of the subject matter.  An element of the surreal is also touched upon in her work, expressing almost otherworldly or romanticised versions of the land and skies. The resulting imagery is both a document and study of the continually active, complex and fragile world around us.

Michelle Considine lives and works in Dublin. She studied Fine Art, Painting in IADT. Recent exhibitions include ‘Elements’, Touring exhibition of Public Sector Art Works, 2012; RHA Annual Exhibition 2012, ‘Strange Days’,Ballina Arts Centre, 2012; ‘32.9.00’, Reykjavik, Iceland 2012; ‘Pallas Periodical review’, Pallas Projects 2011, Dublin;‘Room Outside’, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 2011. In January 2012 she completed a SIM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland.

www.MichelleConsidine.com

Talbot Gallery Curatorial Projects 2013

Talbot Gallery & Studios is pleased to announce a Curatorial Open Call, which invites individuals or collectives to submit a proposal for curating an exhibition at the Talbot Gallery. The successful proposal will form part of the 2013 programme at the Talbot Gallery.

The selected curator/s will receive a maximum support from the gallery and a wonderful opportunity to work with this dynamic space. Talbot Gallery will provide administrative and production support, design and mailing of the press release invitation and an opening reception.

The final version of the selected project will be developed and finalized in close collaboration with the team of Talbot Gallery, with the purpose of taking into account artists requirements and the architectural specificities of each location and local contexts of the venue.

The proposal should be thought taking into consideration Talbot Gallery’s exhibition spaces (floor plans available upon request) We encourage proposals to challenge curatorial and gallery practices.

The Talbot Gallery is currently unfunded but will endorse any application for funding from governing bodies, both national and international.

Closing date for applications is 1^st November, 2012.

The submission should include: 
- A short biography or curriculum vitae (1 page) and contact address of the curator/s.
- An exhibition/project outline explaining the purpose and concept (600 words maximum)
- Initial list of artists and a succinct description of their practice and recent exhibitions (100 words maximum)
- Images of the works to be included with suitable captions.
· Eventual production of new works
· Eventual architectural adaptation of gallery space

Information about Talbot Gallery & Studios

Talbot Gallery Studios is an arts based organisation that endeavours to instigate vibrant artistic practice, to persuade and facilitate inspiration, and to act as a public art resource centre.

The aim of the Talbot Gallery Studios is to provide recent graduates and emerging artists working in all visual art disciplines with affordable studios and the resources which they need to sustain a professional art practice. We strive to provide a supportive creative environment in which artists can flourish while also building creative partnerships and initiatives with a range of organisations from other local and national arts organisations, to businesses and local authorities. Talbot Gallery Studios deliver a range of projects enabling diverse groups of people and individuals to access, participate in, learn through and develop a greater awareness of the visual arts.

Talbot Gallery & Studios

51 Talbot Street
Dublin 1

Phone : 01-8556599
Email : info@talbotgallery.com

Facebook.com/talbotgalleryandstudios

Artist Talk and Light Experiment with Ciara O Hara

To coincide with her show 'Nowhere Here, Somewhere There', at The Talbot Gallery, artist Ciara O'Hara will be giving an artist talk and inviting the public to take part in some visual experimentation here in the gallery.

O'Hara uses everyday subjects to enter a world similar to that of legend, folklore and mythology in an unidentified space. This results in an unexplained narrative of touching moments and decontextualised encounters in the relationship between man and nature. There is a sense of melancholic hope with the imaginary subjects, predominately children and animals, emerging with a strong knowingness of their existence in this unreal space.  Like in folklore and legend, recognisable subjects from our world are involved in unlikely or impossible situations evoking an emotive or didactic response in the audience. This is a place removed from our world, where freedom of movement and restriction co-exist, people become semi-rooted plant-life and animals fight trees for territory.

O’Hara works across a range of media, including print, drawing, painting, photography and porcelain. The use of a variety of media allows each body of work to take on new connotations and subtleties that another medium wouldn't allow.

www.ciaraohara.com

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Talbot Gallery & Studios would be delighted with your participation in this year’s Christmas Show - Fast Moving Consumer Goods

All details regarding the exhibition process are attached to this email along with the standard contract. 


Deadline for acceptance of participation in Fast Moving Consumer Goods is 18^th October 2012
Work to be delivered to gallery by 5pm Saturday 1st December 2012

Storytime with Emma McIvor

On October 4th, as part of 'First Thursdays Dublin', Emma McIvor will be leading a storytime session in relation to our current show, 'Something Thrown and Caught' by Bennie Reilly at The Talbot Gallery. The evening will include a reading by McIvor prefaced by a short introduction by Reilly. All are welcome, from ages 6 and upwards, for what will be an enchanting evening of tall tales and visual art.

Bennie Reilly Gallery Walkthrough, Culture Night 2012

As part of Culture Night 2012, artist Bennie Reilly will be giving a walkthrough of her exhibition, 'Something Thrown and Caught' here at The Talbot Gallery at 7pm. The exhibition itself will open on the 13th September at 6pm, but this will be an additional chance to talk to the artist about her process and gain an extra insight into the individual works.

In this new body of work, Bennie Reilly continues her investigation into the oddities and intricacies of the outside world and demonstrates the strange dialogue which can occur between the eye and the object in the space of a glance. Using her own brand of magic realism through painting and drawing, and elementary and craft-based three-dimensional work, Reilly conjures representational forms and patterns from the anti-chaos of nature. 

Bennie Reilly has exhibited widely, including group exhibitions in Mother's Tank Station, Kevin Kavanagh, Temple Bar Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy.  Recent solo shows include Forest Bathing, Roscommon Arts Centre, 2011 and Paradasaeidae, Monster Truck, Dublin, 2009.  benniereilly.com

Open Submission, 2013

Talbot Gallery Studios: Open call for submissions 2013

Talbot Gallery Studios is currently welcoming submissions for its 2013 exhibition programme. Artists are free to apply individually or in a group. We will welcome proposals for both solo and group exhibitions.Work of all varieties will be considered and we encourage artists to engage with the gallery space in their work if desired.

A lively calendar of events runs alongside the gallery’s exhibition programme which often complements the work on show. This coming year we will continue our exciting programme of events which will include theMost promising Graduate Award  which features an exhibition by 2012 recipient Daniel Tuomey,while also including our Artists Initiative projectwhich was set up to enable artists to utilise the gallery space outside of the gallery’s program of scheduled artists.The agreement consists of an independent set-up on the part of the artist, while the Talbot Gallery lends not only its central location but also its valuable contacts and experience.

Talbot Gallery Studios lends a support to  artists through the provision of exhibition opportunities and affordable studio spaces. The gallery aims to instigate vibrant artistic practice, to persuade and facilitate inspiration,and to act as a public art resource centre. The space consists of an exhibition area and six studios and benefits from its city centre location. 

If you are interested please send an email

-Artist Statement

-Artist Proposal

-6-10 Images (Jpeg images)

-CV (Art related)

Deadline: Tuesday 18^th September 2012

For information and the Talbot Gallerys previous exhibition programme log on to our website; www.talbotgallery.com

Email: info@talbotgallery.comSubject: Open Submission 2013

Contact name: Elaine Grainger

Tel: 018556599

Opening of Miriam McConnon\'s \'My Mackintosh Box\'.

Miriam Mc Connon’s recent work is hugely atmospheric and exudes a nostalgia that is both beautiful and sad. Simple and quiet domestic scenes are the subject of Miriam’s recent work.Everyday household objects occupy each scene. These objects have been well worn and bear the evidence of time passing. The absence of the human presence is felt in these paintings. It is this absence that allows the viewer to focus solely on the objects and the space they occupy. It is the simplicity of these domestic scenes that touch us and hint at the complex emotions that are evoked through the memory of simple and mundane everyday life. It is as if the artist wishes to give these simple scenes a sacred status, by taking the mundane and bringing it into the realm of the precious and adored.  Miriam’s recent paintings make us question the power that nostalgia has over us and its necessity in our lives. Some of her past exhibitions include Persistence of Memory, Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus2012. Silent Innocence, Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus 2008. Recent Work, The Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2008. Drawing Exhibition, Piers Feetham Gallery, London, England 2005.