What Remains, at Sligo Art Gallery

Tadhg McSweeney

27/10/2007 - 24/11/2007

Sligo artist Tadhg McSweeney's exhibition of paintings and sculpture at the Sligo Art Gallery runs from the 27th October until the 24th November. The work was made during a recent year long residency at the Red Stables in St. Anne's park Dublin. McSweeney was the first recipient of this residency-award established by Dublin City Council to assist an emerging Irish Artist.

Based in memory McSweeney's work explores a kind of fictional world: envisioning past, future and present places. The experience of living and working in the park influencing themes and motifs within the work. His paintings built up over time undergo much change and reworking generating a certain history of marks and surface from which landscapes, cityscapes, still-lifes and other scenes and narratives take shape. The sculptures in the exhibition are small scale and made from materials and objects found in the park and surrounding area. They are combined with close to hand material such as cardboard and wood to create dioramas, machines and objects which are sometimes animated further by motors and light.

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