AT THE EDGE OF THE SKIN - CECILY BRENNAN AT THE MERMAID ARTS CENTRE

Well known artist Cecily Brennan is currently at the Mermaid Arts Centre here in Bray.  Brennan is well known to many of the artists in Bray who she taught in the Fine Arts Programme at the Dun Laoghaire Institute for Arts, Design and Technology.  Dont miss this very exciting exhibition.

Cecily Brennan has worked in many media, including painting, various forms of graphics and three-dimensional materials. At the edge of the skin, however, is the first survey exhibition that looks specifically at her work in video, which now amounts to a substantial proportion of her output. The trajectory of her development as an artist takes her closer and closer to the subject of individual tension and trauma and its at times painfully direct visualisation. While evident in other media, as in her iconic, stainless steel Bandaged Heart from 2001 and her tempera paintings of damaged bodies in Heat, the theme is most explicitly addressed in her videos. They have tended to move from the abstract manipulation of materials in a quasi-scientific idiom to the naked vulnerability of the human body and the human psyche in a series of stark, performative pieces including Unstrung, Balancing, Rubber Band, Melancholia and the startling Black Tears.

Strong, often disturbing stuff

YANNY PETTERS AT DROICHEAD ARTS CENTRE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Yanny Petters, member of Signal Art Society and Signal Board Member has an exhibition of work at the DROICHEAD ARTS CENTRE in Drogheda.


The Living Line, Field Studies by Yanny Petters
On Sunday 20th February 2011 at 3pm

The Guest Speaker is Declan Doogue, the author of The Wild Flowers of Ireland
Refreshments will be served.

The Exhibition continues until the 26th March 2011

A botanical drawing and watercolour workshop will take place on the 5th March from 2.30pm-5pm in the gallery. Booking is required.
A free demonstration by the artist will also take place on the 12th March in the gallery from 2.30pm – 5pm.

All Welcome
Marcella Bannon
Director, Droichead Arts Centre,Barlow House
Narrow West Street, Drogheda
Co.Louth
Tel: + 353 041 9875140
Fax: + 353 041 9842055
www.droichead.com