THE ARCTIC, migration, memory, and changing environments will come together in a new exhibition by Galway artist Selma Makela, which opens tomorrow.
Magnetic North opens in the Galway Arts Centre at 6pm and features paintings and video work by Makela and explores the fragility of nature and how things that seem so permanent, such as ice, snow, water, weather, animals, are vulnerable to change.
The title of the exhibition, which refers to the Magnetic North Pole, refers to this vulnerability, as even vast, seemingly unchanging landscapes are constantly shifting and attempting to stabilise themselves.
Selma Makela is a recipient of a 2012 Arts council Artist’s Bursary. She has also received awards from THE Galway County Council, the Arts Council, the Fleck Fellowship, and was a prize winner in the 2007 Claremorris Open. She is a graduate of GMIT.
Magnetic North runs until March 29. See www.selmamakela.com
