BASIC TALKS ~ Ciara Roche ~ September 2023

1pm, 15/09/2023

The Hugh Lane Gallery

Basic Space is delighted to present Ciara Roche for our September BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 15th of September 2023 at Hugh Lane Gallery.

Ciara Roche makes hundreds of small paintings on paper and some larger paintings on canvas. Her paintings are restless and full of detail, they are an exploration of light & colour, they can be uncanny and sometimes off kilter – a familiar places made strange. These paintings are full of tension between reality & fiction and desire & disgust.

Forthcoming and Recent exhibitions include a solo at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny in 2024, nightcall (solo) Ashford Gallery, RHA, MATAIRLANDIA – World Trade Centre – Jakarta and Selasar Sunaryo - Bandung in Indonesia 2022, Generation 2022 – Butler Gallery 2022, Hennessy Craig Exhibition – Royal Hibernian Academy 2022. of late… (solo) at mother’s tankstation Gallery 2021 and Ochre (two person) at Wexford Arts Centre 2021. She is shortlisted for the biannual Hennessy Craig/ Homan Potterton Prize, 2024. She was awarded the Next Generation Award with the Arts Council and won the KM Evans painting prize in 2022. In 2020 she won the Éigse Graduate Prize with Carlow Arts Festival for her work in ARTWORKS, Visual. Her work is included in many significant collections globally including the Maybourne Beverly Hills Hotel, USA, Château la Coste, France, Lismore Castle collection and UCC Collection.
https://ciararoche.com/

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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

This is a FREE Ticketed event, get your ticket here or come along on the day: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/basic-talks-ciara-roche-september-2023-tickets-712067622427?aff=oddtdtcreator