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Hopefully

Paul Hallahan

26 November 2022 — 04 February 2023
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
Hopefully Paul Hallahan. The Dock
  • Date 26 November 2022 — 04 February 2023
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    Tuesday to Saturday, 10am — 5pm

About the Artist(s)

Paul’s practice is primarily based in painting. He takes formalistic ideas from within the history of painting, adding his own interpretations and ideas and bringing them into today’s world. His interests focus in on how we as humans engage and interact with nature beyond ourselves. He feels this relationship defines how we then interact with each other in our constructed society. Abstraction is a base of his imagery, but it has always been derived from source material from the real world.


In recent years he has introduced figuration and more formed imagery into his work as a way of exploring new ideas in an ever-changing world. His practice is led by curiosity about how we see and interact with ‘art’, and primarily painting, and how this can affect and communicate with us within the primordial parts of our brains. He has always had an interest in how art can transcend the verbal and written languages we use, and it is with this thinking that he makes work within his life and art practice.


Paul Hallahan is an artist from Kildare who now lives and works in south Donegal. In 2009, in conjunction with Waterford City Council, he set up and ran Soma Contemporary until 2012. In 2018, he won the Golden Fleece Award. He has exhibited at The Complex, RHA, The Lab, Berlin Opticians Gallery, Roscommon Arts Centre, Lexicon Gallery, Garter Lane, Sternview Gallery, Cork, and Platform Arts. His work is part of the collections of The Arts Council, DLR County Council, IDA, Trinity College Dublin, OPW, Waterford City Collection and numerous private collections.

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Artist website

‘Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...’ Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky, 1949)

Paul Hallahan’s ‘Hopefully’ is an exhibition of all new works shown for the first time at The Dock. A series of paintings and a video that looks to the end of light in the day, the transition between one light and darkness, and the recording of time. Taking the sunset as a focus of attention Hallahan has made a new inquiry into how we record time in our mind's eye, and how the transition between light and dark leads us forward in a linear idea of time. The term sunset directs us to think of the sun moving in our skyline, yet the spinning of our planet is the true movement. With these small linguistic misinterpretations in the English language it changes our connection to the real action in play, a moving version of time and vastly different reality to our everyday.

Having lived for the past number of years on the west coast of Ireland, Hallahan has regularly gazed at the sun setting on the uninterrupted horizon line of the north Atlantic. This final view of a day is a view connecting to all of history, all of the humans on our island, and also to all humans into our future. This near cliché view we take for granted is something more than a view, it is a real-time witness to the movement of the earth as it spins at 1700km an hour and the works in the exhibition are an attempt to record this movement and light. He is drawn to the importance of light and colour in relation to time, energy, growth, and to the very essence of visual art, which is to allow something be seen.

Accompanying the paintings will be a new video work, that Paul made in collaboration with a close friend, Edinburgh-based musician and composer Joe Harney, which will be shown in the smaller gallery that looks east.

Photos by Paul McCarty

Eimear Reidy was commissioned by The Dock to create a cello piece in response to the exhibition 'Hopefully' by Paul Hallahan

The Dock Arts Centre · Eimear Cello commissioned work
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