Local Tipperary arts centre to host opening reception for new art exhibition

South Tipperary Arts Centre will host an opening evening for PETRICHOR / SMELLING THE RAIN on Friday, September 6, from 6pm to 8pm.

PETRICHOR / SMELLING THE RAIN is a dynamic experiment between artists Anna Macleod and Katherine Sankey, curated by Helena Tobin.

The exhibition delves into the fluidity of change brought about by human interference in the biogeochemical stability of Gaia.

Anna Macleod is a visual artist and independent researcher based in Leitrim, Ireland. Her work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural readings of place through a variety of methods, strategies and processes.

She employs quasi-scientific methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, performance and socially engaged activism to critique contemporary landscapes and to build metaphoric spaces for re-imagining the future.

Katherine Sankey is an Australian Irish artist born in Paris and is based in Dublin.

S employs sculpture, video, drawing and painting in her installations. Her sculpture uses living plant tissue and human supply lines to engage in the geo-feminist conversation about what we gouge and suck out of the planet.

It examines mutation and the human extractive machine of supply and power in a multi species context.

Whilst investigating adaptation, colonisation and power, Sankey’s art works also explore structure, supply, and degradation; asking questions about nature, the natural, the body, and function.