Grilse Gallery
Screenprint studio & artist-run gallery in
Killorglin, Kerry
12–5pm Wednesday–Sunday
087 604 7559 / either@grilse.ie
Free entry to all & group visits welcome
Opening on 19 September, Culture Night, at 6pm, Dorota's site specific installation and exhibition will be introduced by broadcaster and art critic Cristín Leach.
Rather than depicting nature, Borowa seeks to collaborate with it, exploring her relationship with the natural world. The process is central to her inquiry, seen as lessons in humility, openness, attentiveness, mindfulness, patience, determination, and forgiveness. Dorota works with water as an active collaborator in the creation of an image. Mixing it with oil paint, watercolour, or ink, she allows the materials to interact organically on paper or board. At times, she sets up physical conditions that allow water to shape the work – such as filling a pool, or building a raft and installing it along the shore. Different states of water – rain, ice, seawater, and recently glacier water – collected from various places form a unique vocabulary in her work.
Above Dorota Borowa,
I would give the water a voice to hum: Water Drawing 6, Fabriano paper, natural pigment, oil paint, movement of water, 148 x 190 cm unframed, 2022
Áine Ryan & Bernadette Cotter,
Beirt le chéile, 18 October – 23 November
Left Áine Ryan, Part of the Herd, 2022, digital manipulated photograph, 30 x 30 cm
Right Bernadette Cotter,
Edge of Absence, 2014, Performance, 2018, LCGA
Ryan’s practice ranges from object making to site-specific land interventions. She creates primarily sculptural pieces with cast glass, mixed media and found objects. Sometimes she incorporates textiles and photography into her pieces. Her frustrations, anxieties and personal history act as catalysts in her work. Ryan draws from nature and her farm upbringing to interrogate the social construct of feminine identity and to examine the role and value of women within the rural patriarchal space.
Meditation, religion and catharsis are central to Cotter’s practice. Whether in drawings, textiles, performance or installations, the level of detail in Bernadette’s work is astonishing, as she says: ‘I can’t seem to get away from it. Even in the drawings — the drawings are made up of thousands of little units. Either little dots or words or the same gesture in the work, sometimes repeated over and over. I suppose it’s a kind of meditation.’
Artists exhibited at Grilse Gallery include: Mike Ahern, Miriam Barry, Regine Bartsch, Paul Bokslag, Dorota Borowa, Katherine Boucher Beug, Cormac Boydell, Edwina Bracken, Kate Buckley, Na Cailleacha (Helen Comerford, Barbara Freeman, Patricia Hurl, Catherine Marshall, Carole Nelson, Rachel Parry, Therry Rudin), Lucy & Robert Carter, Bernadette Cotter, Marie Coveney, Fermoyle Pottery, Lisa Fingleton, Michael Flaherty, Audrey Fleming, Cathy Giles, Debbie Godsell, Tim Goulding, Zoë Green, Patrick Groneman, Karen Hendy, Carol Hodder, Con Kelleher, Denis Kelly, Darragh Kinch, Maria Levigne, David Lilburn, Rochelle Lucey, Sean McCarthy, Ava McKenna, Deirdre McKenna, Tadhg McSweeney, Silke Michels, Susan Montgomery, Paul Mosse, Niall Naessens, Jock Nichol, Noël O’Callaghan, Ciara O’Connor, Denis O’Reardon, Geraldine O’Reilly, Danny Osborne, Rachel Parry, Alan Raggett, Robert Rasmussen, Jenny Richardson, Aisling Roche, Eddie Ryan, Úna Ni Shé, Mary G Sheehan, Gerda Teljeur, Charles Tyrrell. Also in Kerry Art Now! Kathy Cronin, Clodagh Edwards, Laura Fitzgerald, Holger Lönze, Poppy Melia, Aran Mulvihill, Christopher Steenson.