Vessels :Nature Morte opening at Catherine Hammond Gallery | Skibbereen, Co Cork | 21st July 2017
12/07/17 14:32
Gorse II. 2016
Oil on linen. 61 x 51 cm
Invitation to opening| Nick Miller: |
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VESSELS - NATURE MORTE
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July 21 to August 10, 2017
Opening Reception: |
Friday, July 21, 6 - 8 pm
Speaker: |
Sean Rainbird, Director, National Gallery of Ireland
In 2013 Nick Miller began a series of paintings of flowers that were a personal response to working on a long-term creative project at Sligo’s North West Hospice and to his own mother’s terminal illness. Using her collection of vases, bottles and pots, he made arrangements of whatever flowers or plants the season offered. These became both celebrations of life and |
momento mori
, a role that still life painting has traditionally played in Western art. The paintings were made with a sense of urgency that Miller describes as “
seeing the fullness of life before it passes. Making paintings this way offered some release in the face of transience and mortality, while still gambling on an afterlife in pigment itself
”.
The Catherine Hammond gallery is proud to show these life-affirming paintings, many for the first time in Ireland.
Nick Miller (b. 1962 London) moved to Sligo in 1984 and was elected as a member of Aosdána in 2001. He has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the RHA, and the New York Studio School. His work is held in private and public collections worldwide.
A preview of the exhibition is available in the gallery on Friday, July 21 from 11 to 5 or on the web site
here
. We hope to see you at the opening!
