Throughout the month of September Ballina Arts Centre will host New Work, an exhibition of paintings by Galway-based artist Selma Makela. In her work, Makela explores the boundless location of memory and experience. Often using weather phenomena, she describes an area that resists easy definition. The work created inhabits a place of silent ambiguity which prioritises an area beyond that of constructive reason. The paintings in the Ballina exhibition are a collection of distilled fragments which create endless suggested narratives and possibilities, both real and boundless.
Selma Makela graduated from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in 2007, and since then has exhibited at Tulca (Galway ) Glór (Clare ) and the RDS (Dublin ). She was awarded a prize at the Claremorris Open Exhibition 2007, and has been selected again for Claremorris this year. She quotes the German writer WG Sebald to describe her work and the exhibition in Ballina: “And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by the weather, and thus an unquantifiable dimension, which disregards linear regularity?” New Work by Selma Makela runs at Ballina Arts Centre until September 27. Information: Ballina Arts Centre, 096 73593, www.ballinaartscentre.com
