SINEAD LUCEY
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Painting Installation, Evan's Lodge
​Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021


​This work, from 2021, followed a period of making small landscapes directly from life. As an antidote  I wanted to make bigger work in the studio. I focused on questions that arose around 'scaling up', with 
less detail and bigger brush strokes.’
The paintings that emerged were partly inspired by a scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film ‘Blow Up’, where a photographer developing his photos of people in a park, thinks he sees something in the bushes behind. The more he enlarges the photo, the more he loses definition, leading to a questioning of perception and subjectivity. Adapting this idea to painting, the focus becomes one of visual intrigue and the differences between photography and painting. The small rooms of the Evan’s Lodge next to the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, provided an opportunity to observe the effect the paintings have on the space around them
 
A printed reproduction of one of the paintings on view ‘Something in the Bushes, Maryon Park I’ , was also exhibited in billboard form in Gorey, Co Wexford during the summer as part of www.threebillboardsoutside.ie curated by James Merrigan of Periphery Space, Gorey
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Installation view, In the Garden at Moeurs II, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, 2021
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Installation view In the Garden at Moeurs III, oil on canvas 130 x 89 cm
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Installation view, In the Garden at Moeurs II, oil on canvas 130 x 89 cm, 2021 and 14 juillet  oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, 2011
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Installation view, Something in the Bushes, Maryon Park II, oil on canvas, 146 x 97 cm, 2021
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Billboard Something in the Bushes, Maryon Park I, (image cropped from original painting to billboard format), 600cm x 300cm, Esmonde St, Gorey, Co Wexford, July/August 2021, selected by www.threebillboardsoutside.ie, curated by James Merrigan of Periphery Space, Gorey

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  • home
  • Painting
    • Generation 2022 New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery
    • MEET 2022, Periphery Space
    • Evan's Lodge exhibition 2021
    • Landscapes >
      • Landscapes 2020
      • Galerie de Bretagne
      • Open Studio 2021
      • Field Notes 2019
    • Portraits >
      • Local Heads 2015
    • 2019/2018
    • Men in Suits 2009
  • works on paper
    • ecce homo series
    • life-drawing
    • sketchbooks
    • experimental drawing
    • drawing from artworks
  • public engagement
    • KCAT inclusive art centre
    • youth workshops
    • sketch and design club
    • Children's museum and gallery workshops
    • children's workshops
    • local heads
    • performance sketching
    • commissions
  • teaching and learning
    • student life drawing
    • analysis of an artwork
    • studies in deep space, colour and surface
    • visiting lecturer workshops
  • about
    • artist's statement
    • curriculum vitae
  • contact