126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present:
Brian Loughran
Kate Howard
16th - 29th July 2012
Opening reception: Friday 20th July, 7pm
'Guillotine', 2012
Brian Loughran
Brian Loughran is a
Galway based visual artist, graduating from LCAD in 1995. Loughran
explores notions of memory and identity in his work, often using the
mediums of object installation and performance art. Brian has received
grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has performed and exhibited
in Unit 1, Dublin, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2009, ‘Weather permitting’,
Galway, Driocht, Dublin, and RAP, Limerick.
For 'The Shed' exhibition, Loughran
presents two new works, 'Prey' and 'Guillotine'. Both works play on the
viewer's sense of anticipation and expectation. 'Guillotine' alludes to
the seduction of dangerous close encounters and the notion of being
close to the edge of a perilous situation. 'Prey' evokes a sense of
frustration and endless empathy as the work is futile in its nature.
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'Bauen', 2011
Kate Howard
Kate
Howard aims to examine the various spatial and architectural features
of the exhibition space. By the means of nominal site-specific
intervention, seizing an existing situation and exposing the essence of
the materials employed.
Howard
is primarily concerned with instability and alterability, with
construction and decay. She hopes to create new environments that reveal
the essence and unpredictability of the materials themselves. Through
employing and manipulating functional everyday materials and
re-configuring their potential. Interventions produced on site, objects become spatial structures.
Kate
Howard is a contemporary visual artist and arts organizer based in
Galway. In 2010 she completed her MA in Arts Policy and Practice through
the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University
of Ireland, Galway. She holds degrees in Fine Art from Sligo IT (2000)
and GMIT (2009).
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Image: Eimearjean McCormack
The Shed, Middle Pier, The Docks, Galway
Facilitated by the generous support of
the Galway Harbour Company and the Galway City Arts Office, The Shed is a
large 4,000 square foot warehouse space located on the middle pier of
the Galway Docks. The space will be used for the duration of 2012 and
into 2013 for a wide variety of projects and exhibitions, all instigated
by local artists affiliated with Adapt Galway's organisations. Adapt
hopes that by doing so, it will provide a unique platform for local
artists to showcase their talents at a local and national level. Adapt
also hopes to highlight the great potential of such vacant spaces around
the city and how they could be used in the future.
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