SLIPPAGE
Opening 1st March 2018 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition continues: 24th March 2018
Artist Statement
“The area of investigation within my practice explores an extendable paint surface and the provisionality this causes within traditional ideas and values associated with painting. By asking questions of painting as a practice the concern lies in creating visual spaces for conversation within the possibilities of painting anew.
The practice I have made into a painting projects importantly asks, ‘how can a painting make itself over & over + over and over again?’ In a quest to produce new visual outcomes within the same instructional means. This becomes the playful teasing and tension made visible within the painting materials, the processual activity and notably manifests as visual outcomes.” – Susan Connolly
Pushed, pulled, stripped.
Applied, layered, removed.
Cut, separated, revealed.
Stained, bleed, smudge.
Echo’s, traces, fragments……
Biography
Susan Connolly graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with her BA degree, she holds an MFA from the University of Ulster, and a first class honours MA from NCAD, Dublin. She has recently completed her practice-lead PhD research at Ulster University, Belfast having been awarded the VC Scholarship.
Recent solo exhibitions include: The Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin (2017) The Lab, Dublin (2015), dlrLexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin (2015), and The Sunken Gallery, The MAC, Belfast (2014). Group exhibitions include Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New York (2018) How it’s Made, Glasgow (2017) Veins, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (2016); What Is, and What Might be, Highlanes Gallery, Drogehda (2015); ArtBox, Dublin (2014), The Trouble with Painting, The Pumphouse Gallery, London (2014).
More information can be found on www.susanconnolly.com