Exhibition Archive
Going Solo Award winners - Emily Bruton and Carol O'Connor to exhibit in Solstice Arts Centre 26th Nov - 18th Dec
Date Released: 20 November 2009
Meath County Council Arts Office present joint winners of the Going Solo Award in an exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre
Opening on Thursday, 26th November, and presented in association with Meath County Council and Solstice Arts Centre, Going Solo is an exhibition of the work of this year's winners of the Meath County Council Going Solo Award, artists Emily Bruton and Carol O'Connor.
This award is intended to support recent graduates of art living in, or from Co.Meath and to assist young and emerging artists in the development of their professional careers.
'We have met late' by Emily Bruton / 'Until Something Moves' by Carol O'Connor
Emily Bruton graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a B.Des in Ceramics in 2007. She has exhibited in the National Museum of Ireland, The Blue Loft Gallery, The Bridge Gallery and The Art Explosion in San Francisco. Her work is in the Irish Life permanent collection and in many private collections throughout Ireland, the U.S.A and Europe. She is currently focused primarily on painting and mixed media and works from her studio on St Augustine Street in Dublin.
Carol O’ Connor is a recent graduate from the National College of Art and Design. Her work, mostly oil paintings, reference landscape albeit ambiguous and fleeting. The original image is often obscured or rubbed away so that just a trace of the original intention is left behind, thus creating a sense of motion or transition like a memory of what has just passed or happened. The title of her new work featured in the exhibition is ‘Indelible Traces’.
The exhibition ‘Going Solo’ continues in the gallery at Solstice Arts Centre until Friday 18th December. The gallery opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am to 4.00pm. Admission is free.
