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Archived Exhibition

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh

16 July — 10 October 2020
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Installation 20 02 620 430 90 c1
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Installation 19 02 620 430 90 c1
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Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Installation 13 620 430 90 c1
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Installation 07 02 620 430 90 c1
  • Date 16 July — 10 October 2020
  • Opening Hours

    11.30am to 4pm Thursday to Saturday

    12pm to 4pm Sunday

About the Artist(s)

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh (b. 1977) graduated in 2001 from Fine Art Painting at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She was awarded the HOTRON Art Award, 2019 and was joint winner of The Hennessy Craig Scholarship, 2010. In addition she has featured on the John Moores Painting Prize shortlist, 2018, The Marmite Prize for Painting V shortlist, 2016, and AIB Prize shortlist, 2009.

Represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Ní Mhaonaigh has exhibited extensively in both Ireland and abroad at venues including Limerick City Gallery of Art, Anthony Slayter-Ralph Fine Art, Los Angeles, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, Millenium Court Arts Centre, Armagh, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, The Living Room Gallery, New York, Ard Bia Berlin. Ní Mhaonaigh’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections including The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Office of Public Works, Ernesto Ventós Barcelona, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, and Drogheda Municipal Art Collection at Highlanes Gallery.

Irish Times Art Critic Aidan Dunne in a 2019 review of her work wrote "Ní Mhaonaigh’s work certainly allows many readings and interpretations, but it is fair to say that it is not prescriptive in intent. And at its heart is an exceptional investment in and love for the medium of paint."

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"The language of painting has always inspired me. How you work with a very simple format, with a very simple material like canvas. All the magic, the wonder, it’s all there, there to be painted"

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Sinéad's work to date has referred to spatial experience through her use of words in the Irish language that describe the lived environment. ‘Imlíne, Eatramh, Imeall, Ardán. This alliterative litany of nouns in Irish is derived from titles of solo exhibitions Ní Mhaonaigh has presented nationally and internationally in various venues over the past decade. As their equivalent terms in English, ‘Contour’, ‘Interval’, ‘Margin’, ‘Platform’ cumulatively suggest, a prevailing concern in her work is the elaboration and exploration of bounded space. Given the particular nature of her painting, we are free to interpret this primarily in formal terms, as a concern with the construction of a pictorial architecture; or, alternatively, we may opt to relate it to the distinct varieties of socio-cultural or symbolic space invoked in individual pictures, and sometimes affirmed by their attendant titles. Such openness to ambiguity is telling. After all, she has always drawn freely on the legacy of modernist abstraction, while remaining happy to accommodate what modernist painting’s sternest gatekeeper, the American critic Clement Greenberg, dismissed as ‘homeless representation’ more than half a century ago. This determined indeterminacy, if we might call it that, has been a consistent aspect of her working method from the outset. Sinéad prefers to regard vagueness as a virtue rather than a vice, and prizes evasion as a useful strategy for an artist.

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh exhibition at The Dock 2020 from THE DOCK ARTS CENTRE on Vimeo.

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