A TOTAL TRANSFORMATION IS NEEDED

Location: The Old Fire Station, located at 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6, D06 R9F9.

Exhibition Dates: 5th – 18th October 2024.

Open: Wed-Sat | 1 – 6pm

Featured Artists: Clodagh Assata Boyce, Isaac Harris, Jordan/Martin Hell

Curated by Beulah Ezeugo

A TOTAL TRANSFORMATION IS NEEDED is a group show and a holler into the ether.

In this exhibition, featuring work mediated through prose, speech, and song, three artists working across the Black Atlantic—Clodagh Boyce (Ireland/USA), Jordan/Martin Hell (UK/USA), and Isaac Harris (UK/USA)—meet in Dublin to engage in a dialogue. The exhibition highlights the practices of Black artists who write, emphasising the power of language to construct and deconstruct the intangible frameworks that shape our lives.

Join us for a launch event at MART Gallery, Old Fire Station Rathmines on October 5th at 1:00 PM. The event will include a special reading by Isaac Harris from their forthcoming novel, Le Triomphe de Reine Nègre, starting at 1:30 PM.

Artist Statements: 

Clodagh Assata Boyce is a Trini-Irish curator and artist working between Belfast and Dublin. They employ gathering as artistic practice to explore nationhood and migration.

Isaac Harris is a writer and artist from Virginia whose practice interrogates cultural and historical narratives through fiction. Their work explores themes of memory, the absurdity of Black identity, and the fluidity of power, focusing on narratives set in and around Virginia and the greater Black diaspora in the Atlantic world. Isaac is the author of Blaxploitation Burner Tape (Waterwings Press, 2023) and Ghetty Gospel (Ethel Zine, 2021, US; Peanut Press, 2021, Scotland). Recent work has appeared in Deleuzine (2023) and in Francis Jones and Josie Perry’s The Thieves, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2024). Isaac holds a degree in Linguistics and History from the University of Edinburgh and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.

Jordan/Martin Hell is a Black trans(2s) artist, writer, & scholar. They are the author of CONSTANT VIOLINS (Arcadia Missa, 2021) & AUTOLINGO DIDACTICA (Monitor Press, 2023) Their writing has been internationally published in interdisciplinary press, projects, & initiatives by Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (DE), Arcadia Missa Gallery & Publishing (UK), Monitor Books (UK), Real Review (UK), Soft Opening (UK), Mousse Magazine (DE), 032c (DE), Rosie’s Disobedient Press (UK), Sticky Fingers Publishing (UK), The Bittersweet Review (UK), Pratt Institute’s The Felt (US), & others. He studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule (DE) & Cooper Union School of Art (US).  Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in the School of English & Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis project BLACK DEVIATIONS, ARCHIVAL SPECULATIVITIES: BLACK FEMINIST PRACTICE-LED RESEARCH IN MID-LATE 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE & PERFORMANCE is an interdisciplinary global archive of speculative research & practice across experimental painting, queer/trans womanist theology, film, meditation/monasticism/queer spiritual separatism, porn, translation, transcription, music, archive, hybrid text & novellas, sculpture, fashion, & performance. Their work has been shown internationally at Soft Opening (UK), Tokyo Arts & Space (JP), Sadie Coles (UK), Emanuel Layr, (EU),  Wexner Center for the Arts (US), Goethe Institut Irland (EU), Performance Space NY (US), Sophiensæle (DE), Callie’s (DE), La MaMa Theater & Galleria (US), Ars Nova (US) & more. 

Beulah Ezeugo is an artist & curator who works with others against the rapid tightening and regularisation of borders. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies & memory and expands outwards through exhibition-making, programming, & publication. As an independent curator, she is interested in supporting collaborative & research-led artists’ practices. Beulah is currently a research associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry, and one-half of the collective Éireann & I Archive, a migrant memory project.

Livestock: Creation Myths

Artists: El Putnam, Aifric Prior Beliere, Bobby Fitzgerald, Ruaidhri Maguire, Karmel Daly, Olivia Hassett

Livestock Performance Art Platform presents Creation Myths, at The MART Gallery at the Old Fire Station Rathmines on Saturday 21^st of September 2024 3-5pm.

This concept chimes with Under the Feet of Shadows,  El Putnam & Mike McCormack exhibition as part of MART’s current programme. Creation Myths is a theme through which might conjure pasts, presents and futures, historical, imagined or speculative.

Under the Feet of Shadows – El Putnam & Mike McCormack

Location: The Old Fire Station, located at 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6, D06 R9F9.

Exhibition Dates: 14th – 28th Sept 2024.

Open: Wed-Sat | 1 – 6pm

As part of this exhibition a Live Art performance event will take part on Sept 21st at 3pm – Livestock Creation Myths

Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of technology, the environment, and human society as an entangled ecology. The work merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies with histories of technology in Ireland.

This exhibition kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, MART Gallery, and CIACLA Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles where an iteration of the exhibition will be exhibited in 2025.

EL Putnam is an artist-philosopher working in performance art, video, sound, and digital media. Her practice focuses on borders and entanglements, particularly the interplay of the corporeal with the machinic. Through her artistic practice, she is interested in exploring hidden histories and emotional experiences, testing the limits of their un-representability as she takes the familiar and makes it strange. In particular, she probes our gestural relationship to digital technology using wearable electronics in live performance, through the creation of responsive multimedia installations, and the crafting of short moving image and sound pieces. Treating art as inherently participatory, her work opens intersubjective spaces that offer multiple conceptual and aesthetic points of entry for the audience through alchemical diffractions of experience, cultivating new modes of embodiment. In addition to creating works that are rich in cultural and political meaning, including the biopolitics of motherhood in Ireland, she is interested in how aesthetic pleasure can be used as a critical strategy, or as a means of captivating audiences in order to expose them to provocative ideas. EL actively presents artworks and performances in the United States, Europe, and beyond, and has been a member of the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group since 2009. Originally from the United States, she is Assistant Professor in Digital Media at Maynooth University, Ireland and lives in Co. Westmeath, Ireland. http://www.elputnam.com

milksop – Niamh Hannaford

milksop is the residue of a collection of Niamh Hannaford’s thoughts which cluster around time, usage, environment, complicity, and care. Mirroring the dominant extraction economy and the industrialization of resources, she creates a temporal sculpture which requires cyclical maintenance and endures decay and loss. 

This exhibition explores the value of labour and ageing when liaising with the god of commerce. Sitting beside – and on – layers of exploitative practices. She (her and her family) repetitiously manifest frozen offerings. Manufacturing a milky banshee. That pesky lady which haunts our dreams, and pressures our screens, full of serums and vital boosts. 

Her lonesome wail in daily demonstration:

Opening Performance –  Saturday 24th August – 3pm

Viewing times –  24 Aug – 7 Sept  | Wednesday–Saturday 1–6pm 

Closing Performance – Saturday 7th September – 3pm

Niamh Hannaford creates uneasy, honest, playful, and conflicted installations/performances. She explores how history and ritual merge with modern-day economic values through frantic storytelling.  Her work sits in the tension she finds through her everyday interaction with multinational corporations and her lived infrastructure which supports them. Current research surrounds the dairy industry, the pressure of skincare, generational trauma, shame, resource usage, environmental concerns, and Irish folkloric traditions of keening and the banshee.

Niamh is currently pursuing an MFA in Goldsmiths University, London.

Members Exhibition at The Grainstore

MART Members Exhibition at The MART Gallery Grainstore Cabinteely

Featuring work by : Louise Newman, Deirdre Hayes, Denise Kevany, Róisín Luedicke, EarhmanBob [Bobby Fitzgerald] , Marco Thiemann, Maura Culbert.

Open Saturday | 11am-4pm 

Location: MART Studios at The Grainstore, Cabinteely Park, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, D18 PDD0

The Directors of MART, Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin, are proud to present a curated selection of visual artists from our vibrant studio at The Grainstore Cabinteely Park. This exhibition serves as both a celebration of artistic expression and a thoughtful inquiry into the role of art in shaping both individual and collective identities, locally and globally. Our artists employ a wide array of mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, illustration, digital art, photography, film, and performance art. This exhibition provides an essential platform for our members to exhibit their works publicly, enhance their visibility, and engage with wider audiences. Through this showcase, MART is excited to demonstrate the breadth of artistic talent we support, while also aiding our artists in advancing their professional careers and opportunities to market and sell their work. The MART Studios at The Grainstore is kindly supported by Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council Arts Office and The Arts Council of Ireland.

About the Artists:

Louise Newman’s work can be found in many Private and Public collections including, Bank of Ireland, The O.P.W,  Department of Defence, The Flynn Hotel Group, The Haddington Hotel Dublin The Blackrock Clinic, Irish Credit Union, The European Patent Office Munchen, Touchstone Healthcare and in the Private Collections of many. Her present work came about through residencies on Clare Island,  The Cill Rialaig Project in Co Kerry, also time spent in Connemara and West Clare. Her Coastal scenes are of The Wild Atlantic Way, an area of great interest and  significance to the artist. Her work shows assured use of texture and mark making with a concentration on surface. It is her intention to continue to be informed by her observations and feelings about that which surrounds her.  www.louisenewman.com    

Deirdre Hayes is an award winning plein air artist and oil painter based in Dublin, Ireland. She loves to paint classical, elegant and timeless portraits, still lifes and the wonder of the Irish landscape and cities. Her work can be seen at www.deirdrehayes.com 

Denise Kevany – An artist living in the Dun Laoghaire area for 40 years, working primarily in paint and drawing with landscape and figurative work the main focus of my practice. Work has featured in many galleries and exhibitions over the last 20 years, including Lexicon Dun Laoghaire, Town Hall Dun Laoghaire. Mermaid Arts Centre Bray, Hallward Gallery and Sandford Gallery Dublin, Pallas Contemporary Projects Studio, La Cathedral Studios Dublin, Centre for Creative Art Practices Dublin, 44 The Quay Waterford and the RUA 139th Annual Exhibition Belfast. I am a graduate of IADT Visual Arts and RHA School of Arts Diploma in Painting & Drawing. I am a member of Dublin Arts Society, ArtNet DLR, Signal Arts Centre Bray and Visual Artists Ireland.  I also take part in Art in the Open Wexford and Dublin Plein Air. My studio is in The Grainstore, The Park, Cabinteely, Co Dublin. www.denisekevany.ie 

Bobby Fitzgerald A.K.A EarthmanBob is a spoken word poet and visual artist whose work uses a cultural lens to investigate climate change, a.i. and communal organising through storytelling about the Earth and possible futures.  www.instagram.com/earthmanbob 

Marco Thiemann is a gardener and artist based in Dublin who paints the urban environment, streetscapes and landscapes. www.instagram.com/em.tee.art 

MART AWARDS SHOW 2024

MART AWARDS SHOW 2024

Catherine Togher ward (Fingal)

Conor O’Brien (Crawford Graduate)

Roisín McGuigan (Firestation art studios)

Curated by Ciara Scanlan

Exhibition Runs Aug 3-17th | Open Wed-Sat 1-6pm

Opening Reception Saturday 3rd August 2024 at 1pm.

The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lower. – map link

www.mart.ie

This annual exhibition aims to provide a showcase and support opportunity to artists whose work is both engaging and experimental. The exhibition presents artists selected through partnerships; Catherine Togher Ward was selected from the MART & Fingal Arts Office Graduate Award and successfully received a one year studio at MART Studios alongside curatorial and financial support for the exhibition and Roisín McGuigan was selected from Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Practice Award and Conor O’Brien a recent graduate of MTU Crawford College of Art & Design.

Artist Bios and statements:

Roisín McGuigan

Roisín McGuigan’s practice is an auto-ethnographic reflection on place, phenomena, and the reverberations of growing up near the Northern Irish border and explores its contemporary relevance via research, memory and anecdote through a multi-disciplinary practice of visual art and writing.

McGuigan is a graduate of NCAD, Burren College of Art, and Turps Art School, London. She has received numerous grants and bursaries from The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Kerry County Council and Creative Ireland, and was awarded the inaugural Graphic Studio Dublin Expanded Print Residency in 2022 and a Fire Station Artists’ Studios’ Sculpture Practice Award in 2023. McGuigan was also recently awarded the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry-Londonderry’s Reciprocal Residency at Kaunas Artists’ House in Lithuania for 2024. 

Her work has previously featured in galleries at home and abroad including VISUAL Carlow, Rua Red, Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, Hun Gallery, New York, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, UK, and in Matera, Italy as part of the European City of Culture 2019. Upcoming exhibitions for 2024 include MART, Dublin and CCA Derry-Londonderry.

Conor O’Brien: 

My work explores the relationship between marginalised queer bodies and the alien other of science fiction, pulling on representations of the incomprehensible.

Trans and genderqueer bodies are being weaponised politically by right wing movements worldwide. The discussion around trans identity in the media, which largely seems to ignore or underrepresent trans voices, has reduced the issue to ‘us’ and ‘them’. This dehumanises and alienates trans people, who instead become a thing to be feared rather than individuals to be understood.

My paintings act as a first contact between the viewer and an alien body. The biomorphic creations I refer to as Visitors pull on life native to earth such as fungi or marine life, informing the viewer that they are more like us than we might initially think. Fungi, due to their relationship with death and decay, are seen as unnerving or something to be feared: slowly encroaching, invading your space, like the mould on your walls. However, this invalidates their invaluable participation in the creation of new life and the crucial role that fungi play in sustaining human existence. The amalgam bodies that emerge in my paintings include limbs and visceral forms reminiscent of genitalia and internal organs. They don’t resolve into coherent bodies – they appear to fluctuate, never resting, ever growing.

My Visitors are flamboyantly coloured, overly sweet, loud and assertive. As trans and genderqueer people, we do not need to justify our existence or identity to anyone. By merely existing we challenge and dismantle preconceived notions of gender. This may frighten, disturb or enrage people who refuse to recognise us. Similarly, my Visitors may evoke such a reaction, but to me they are beautiful and aspirational, defiantly and boldly themselves which cannot be ignored and is a joyous expression of the queer body.

Catherine Togher-Ward

Artist Statement:

In Pursuit of the Moon is an evolving body of work by artist Catherine Togher-Ward.

Informed by themes of beauty, desire and transformation this project aims to investigate our nature through its exploration of the tumultuous relationships between moth, man and moon in a continuous cycle of obsession, pursuit and destruction.

As the moth flits between worlds with its paper wings, in constant pursuit of otherworldly beauty, it reflects our own nature while tied to us through the commonality of insatiable desire. As we breed, boil and discard in the pursuit of silk, a species of moth is created that is unable to see the light of the moon or lift itself off of this earth in its pursuit.

The process of this project’s production involves the hand raising of over 500 wax moths on soft ground copper plates. On these plates the moths lived out their entire lives with each movement from larva to moth leaving a unique impression in the ground. These markings were then etched and printed, capturing their metamorphosis in paper and ink. Displayed alongside these etchings is a series of post mortem photographic portraits of the moths, suspended in time in their endless pursuit.

Catherine Togher-Ward

Catherine Togher-Ward is an interdisciplinary Fingal-based artist who specialises in paint and

expanded printmaking.

She has been a resident in Ardgillan Studios since 2021 where she worked collaboratively to co-found Ardgillan Gallery before returning to NCAD to complete her degree in Fine Art Print. It was at this time that she initiated the production of her evolving body of work, In Pursuit of the Moon.

Following the display of this body of work at the 2023 NCAD Graduate Exhibition, Catherine Togher-Ward was granted the Fingal Arts Office & MART Gallery and Studios Graduate Award.

She later returned to Ardgillan Gallery to curate the Winter Exhibition in November 2023 as well as exhibit alongside Maya Brezing and Emma Scully in April 2024 in their show Flesh and Roots.

Since receiving the Graduate Award in January 2024 Catherine Togher-Ward has been a resident in MART Studios as well as a recent member of Black Church Print Studio.

Wine and die

Film Screening: WINESPLOITATION

Visual Art: Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Alina Hernández,

Jane McBride, Senan O’Connor & James Sheridan

Event Opening & Live Performance: Friday 19th July 6-9pm

Exhibiton: 20-21st July

Wine and Die

Catch the docufiction film Winesploitation (Gallery 2) and visual arts by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Alina Hernández, Jane McBride, Senan O’Connor and James Sheridan (Gallery 1).

Opening event will feature:

Live drawing by Senan O’Connor, fuzzy noise music by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz and the film’s composer Joe Anderson.

Designed and curated by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz

WINE & DIE explores the sense of agency through staged self-destruction, repetition and imagery of isolation. It reflects on the conditions within which artistic expression is cultivated in relation to others – particularly the condition of shared intoxication. 

All the artists involved in WINE & DIE participated in the production or post-production of the film Winesploitation (which can be seen in the back gallery throughout the show). This exhibition came out of the low budget collectivity behind the film, with the aim of exposing the relational process of thinking/making/influence around its emergence. It involves photography, painting, sketch art, mixed-media installation and noise music.

This is a space in which to connect, expose and isolate, while reflecting on how exposed isolation (as exhibition translates “exposition” in French) can refer to a shared experience. Perhaps wine has something to do with it. 

Designed and curated by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz.

The Irish Contemporaries {iii}

The Irish Contemporaries {iii} – A Photographic, Visual Art & Film Exhibition 

Featured Artist: Bobby Zithelo

Spotlight Artists:  Riley Waite | Sionnan Wood | Brenda Welsh | Jerry McGrath

Curated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan of MART Gallery

Held at Building Bridges Art Exchange at Bergamot Station

Exhibition Opening: 1pm on Saturday, July 6th
6th July – 10th August 2024

A FREE Family Craft Day will be held on July 13th – RSVP at CIACLA Family Day

The third annual Irish Contemporaries exhibition will return this summer at Building Bridges Art Exchange, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

CIACLA – The Contemporary Irish Center Los Angeles, in partnership with Building Bridges Art Exchange and The MART Gallery & Studios Dublin, proudly present this exhibition featuring photography, film and visual art group exhibition with Featured Artist: Bobby Zithelo and Spotlight Artists: Riley Waite | Sionnan Wood | Brenda Welsh | Jerry McGrath

The exhibition will also feature prints by Tom Dowling and artcards by a curated selection of Irish visual artists including Aisling Phelan, Anthony D Kelly, Austin Ivers, Brady Izquierdo Rodríguez, Erica Duryea, Gerry Wardell, Jack Knowles, Katarzyna Gajewska, Lois Keller, Marina Karysheva, Paul James Kearney, Scarr O Scóir, Sinéad Clancy, Zithelo Mthombeni.

The Irish Contemporaries {iii} is a captivating exhibition celebrating the diverse talents of contemporary artists from Los Angeles County and a curated selection of Irish artists by Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin.

The core of this group exhibition will feature a curated selection of works by Bobby Zithelo, whose artistic journey and distinctive style offers a compelling dialogue within the modern Irish cultural landscape. Bobby Zithelo is one of the most exciting contemporary creatives based in Dublin, Ireland, he excels in blending his own artistic and commercial work with visual storytelling. Known for his active role in photographing the current Irish Music Scene and documentaries provide poignant insights into contemporary Irish life, focusing on themes of race, identity, and the challenges faced by young people. Zithelo’s work offers a unique perspective that reflects his dedication to exploring cultural identity and social issues through his practice.

On a broader note, the Irish visual art scene has become a vibrant tapestry of innovation and tradition, where contemporary artists seamlessly blend historical influences with modern techniques. Known for its rich cultural heritage, Ireland continues to produce a dynamic array of visual artists who captivate global audiences with their unique perspectives and creative expressions. The Irish visual art community thrives on collaboration, with artists frequently engaging in cross-disciplinary projects and international exhibitions, making it an exciting and ever-evolving landscape for both creators and art enthusiasts alike.

“This exciting group exhibition showcases a mix of photography, visual art, and film, offering a unique assemblage that casts a spotlight on the captivating blend of techniques, narratives, and perspectives characterising the contemporary art scene in Ireland and Los Angeles,” says co-curator Matthew Nevin.

Location:
Building Bridges Art Exchange, Unit F2, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, LA, CA 90404 – Google Maps

For more information, visit www.ciacla.com.

Kindly Supported By: This exhibition was made possible with support from the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme,Third District Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Culture Ireland, LA County Department of Arts and Culture, CIACLA, MART Gallery & Studios, African American Irish Diaspora Network and Building Bridges Art Exchange.

About the Featured & Spotlight Artists:

Bobby Zithelo is a Dublin-based filmmaker known for incorporating visual storytelling into commercial direction. The portfolio includes Adidas, Life Style Sports, Jameson, Brown Thomas RTE, Redbull and more. Zithelo’ strong connection between creativity and visual imagery is evident in his various projects. In addition to his commercial work, Bobby Zithelo is a versatile visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. His latest documentary offers a poignant insight into contemporary Irish life, particularly the challenges facing young people. Zithelo’s directing credits include: ‘OUR LAND’ docu-series (2022) The award winning film ‘This Land’ A film about Ireland’s relationship with race, identity and immigration. Director & Producer of ‘Up Next’ An Irish Hip-Hop documentary. https://www.workbyzithelo.com/

Sionnan is an internationally exhibited artist, creative consultant, and curator. Born in British Columbia and raised in the Bay Area, in 2010, she relocated to Los Angeles drawn by one of the largest visual economies. Her current practice focuses on painterly intuition informed by a rigorous representational skillset. She balances formal methods with her spontaneous, abstract process. Her body of work encompasses portraiture and still life supported by the conceptual and technical skills she honed at ArtCenter College of Design. Her representational concerns draw from an understanding of neuroaesthetics, and she takes inspiration from artists as dissimilar as Eleanor Antin, Mark Bradford, Alice Neel, Édouard Manet, James Thurber, and David Shrigley. https://sionnan.com/

Brenda Welsh is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles. She studied at the Corita Art Center and Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor’s in science and Juris Doctor degrees from Glendale University College of Law, California. Her successful and demanding business career was the focus of her endeavors for many years. In 2002 she pursued making her art full time and since then her work has been in over 90 exhibits, including Irish Contemporaries II. She is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, Women Painters West, Collage Artists of America and several other prestigious art organizations. Her paintings are included in private collections throughout the United States and in Europe Welsh is an abstract expressionist painter and a true colorist. She is influenced by her extensive worldwide travels, the visual aspects of nature, her personal challenges and everything life gives and takes from us.”  Using bright and bold colors she forms shapes and places them deliberately or allows the paint to dictate where it wants to flow drip or puddle. No matter how the shapes occur, her objective is to create movement, depth and unity over the painting surface.  By the time the work is complete it will have multiple layers of paint, various textures and/ or collage elements and, it will have gone through numerous directions and stages. Her preferred mediums are acrylic paint, watercolor, collage, India ink and assemblage. www.brendawelsh.com

Riley Waite “As an Irish diasporan figurative painter, my work is a reflection of my unique upbringing in both Ireland and the USA. My paintings are an exploration of the cultural clashes and conflicts that have shaped my identity and are informed by my view of what ‘home’ is: whether it be in a specific place, person or memory. I normally depict scenes that have never occurred in real life, but rather are loose representations from my memory which form an ambiguous moment in time that is personal to me. I’m currently intrigued by the menacing nature of Irish youth culture as a sociological phenomenon and aim to explore these issues through narrative and formal investigations.”  www.rileywaiteart.com

Jerry McGrath is an artist with a profound emotional connection to the landscape, particularly the Irish terrain. His series. ‘Between Now and Then’ and ‘Chop Wood, Carry Water,’ not only showcase this relationship but also weave in elements of mystery and contemplation. McGrath’s art invites viewers to practice mindfulness and immerse themselves in the narrative of his visual art. His unique approach, which melds creative photography and design with storytelling, is complemented by his experience as a Producer and Art Director in the film industry since 2017. McGrath is currently finalizing two screenplays, further enriching his creative portfolio. ‘My goal,’ McGrath says, ‘is to share my wonder, to draw you into a contemplative space, and to explore the stories that bind us—from the mundane to the magnificent.'” https://jerrymcgrath.com