A Winter of three exhibitions at The Dock

On Saturday, November 26, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon celebrates the opening of the Winter exhibition which run until January 28, featuring the work of three artists, Cecilia Bullo, Siún Suibhne and Paul Hallahan. Artist and curator Mark Garry will lead a discussion with the exhibiting artists, followed by a performance by composer and cellist Eimear Reidy, which has been especially commissioned for the event.

Cecilia Bullo works primarily in sculpture and installation. She has studied sculpture at IADT, Dun Laoighaire; the Brera Fine Art Academy, Milan; the Academy of Fine Art, Athens and in 2009 she received her Master of Fine Art from the National College of Art & Design. Her work is an inquiry into the healing mechanisms of ritual, particularly regarding the challenges caused by the displacement and migration of women. In exploring her own up-rooted, migrant background, Bullo includes personal signifiers such as plants taken from her mother’s garden in Italy and re-planted in Ireland.

This work is envisaged as archaeological and dystopian and explores mythological and personal narratives.

Dublin-based Siún Nic Suibhne works in photography, print and drawing. A recent Fine Art graduate from TU Dublin, Súin is currently studying for an MA in NCAD. She was awarded both a Graphic Studio Graduate Award and a Cill Rialaig Graduate Residency Award in 2022. Her work, presented in the foyer of The Dock entitled Fragments & Fictions, considers materiality and temporality in architectural spaces.

The relationship between memory and space is examined through everyday domestic activities and phenomena.

The resulting pieces are concerned with the visual poetics of minutiae and forms often overlooked in these places.

Entitled Hopefully, Paul Hallahan’s exhibition queries how we understand the passing and recording of time. Having lived on the west coast of Ireland, Hallahan regularly watches sunsets on the uninterrupted horizon line of the North Atlantic.

Taking the sunset as a focus of attention the artist has made a new inquiry into how time is recorded in our mind's eye, and how the transition between light and dark leads us forward in a linear idea of time.

This final view of the day connects to all of history, to all humans on our island, and to all humans into our future. While the term ‘sunset’ directs us to think of the sun moving through our skyline, in reality it is, of course, the earth which is moving.

Hallahan suggests that it is these small misinterpretations in the English language which change our connection to what is really happening

At 2pm on the afternoon of the exhibition opening, critically acclaimed cellist Eimear Reidy will perform her specially commissioned work which responds to Paul Hallahan’s work 'Hopefully'. With a diverse musical practice ranging from Historical Performance Practice to Sound Art Reidy has strong links to Leitrim and has performed in The Dock on numerous occasions.

Reidy is a prolific composer, performer and collaborator and her performance at The Dock is not to be missed

For more information about the exhibitions and other associated events, please check out www.thedock.ie