23 September – 22 October 2023

Niall Naessens: Ar Imeall an Iontais/The Edge of Marvellous
Introduced by Charles Tyrrell: see https://youtu.be/10Rne69fUS4

Niall's exhibition comprised a body of recent etchings, monoprint drawings and digital drawings depicting remote and extreme places. The landscape imagery, extracted mostly from the topography of West Kerry, is embellished with memory, dreams and invention. The human figure, often an artist, occasionally appears bidding us to share their outlook.

Developing a brand of 21st-century Irish Romanticism, Naessens inquires into his emotional

connection with the world he lives in. With colour and motif he contrives to portray this world in

fantastic compositions, each one an episode of a greater narrative. In an adventurous collaboration with Stephen O'Connell and Alexis Bowman of Fermoyle Pottery the show included ceramic landscape pieces.

Red Toyota Estate 1973 and the Plough, 2023. Digital drawing, archival print on bamboo paper 95 x 95 cm

Derelict Sheds and Swallows, 2023. Drawing / monoprint: graphite, etching, gouache, 45 x 45 cm. €1450 framed.

Observing Sea Birds in the Rain, etching, 20 x 20 cm, 2023

Stephen O'Connell and Robert review the work in progress