The Watergate Theatre, Upstairs Gallery will see the opening of an exciting exhibition, ‘Preservations’, works from Dublin-based artist Maeve Brennan this evening, Friday January 23, at 5pm.
The feeling of attachment to places of familial history is the thread running through Maeve’s current work.
A road, like any other country road is given a new resonance through the faint depiction of a pram. A child’s reflection in a cottage window generates an interest in the history of this window, those who have peered out from it, and those who lived behind it. The idea of a person whom one has never met, a house one has never visited, creating a sense of ancestry, attachment and place is overwhelming. Some of the people in these paintings are living, some are deceased, and all bear a relationship to the artist. Presented in this way, that relationship becomes incidental. The artist attempts to preserve what has passed, marking the passing of a time and family, while preserving the present.
Maeve Brennan is based in Richmond Road Studios, Dublin where the images showcased in ‘Preservations’ form part of an ongoing series.
The exhibition runs at the Watergate from January 23– February 27
