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“Anna Livia weeps for her children”
Sharon Hogan, Aisling McEntee Walsh, Siobhán O’Callaghan
Oil, acrylic, ink, cartapesta sculpture, on cotton canvas
90cm x 90cm (cruciform)
2024
€3,300
“Anna Livia weeps for her children” considers the losses, betrayals, and silencing of women throughout the ages, the rivers of tears they’ve shed, and their resilience and determination, all held under the sorrowful gaze of the river goddess herself, Anna Livia Plurabella. On a cruciform of canvasses comprised of painting and cartapesta sculpture, women’s sorrows are poured into the waterways that carry their stories around this island and across the seas to those who had to leave, to those who the sea claimed, and to those who survived.
Subliminal Currents
Paula Fitzpatrick & Margaret Tuffy
Panel Mounted Hanging Woven Sculpture
2024
POA
Concept: subliminal atmospheric crosscurrents made visible through the use
of coloured LED lighting simply woven. With very slow pulsating intensities
of warm white LED light, and the addition of hand blown individual clear
glass Breaths, which gently distort and highlight the reflected waves of colour.
Tensegrity 39
Kathryna Cuschieri & Simon Robinson
Glass, Photographic Decals, Steel, Wire, Wood and Electronics
Sphere on column on plinth, (H) 2.6 m x (W) 1.0 m
2024
€12,500
Kathryna Cuschieri is a Clare-based glass artist born in Malta. Simon Robinson is a Dublin-born photographer who worked overseas for 40 years. We too are migrants.
We exchanged concepts when this collaboration put us together. We think hospitality is reciprocal. Kat’s tensegrity was merged with one of Simon’s chapbooks by printing his photographs on her glass.
Our globe is formed by tensegrity. It hold islands of glass fused with images of ethnic shopfronts in Ireland. Each image is shaped like a home. The hidden people behind the shopfronts are selfdetermining. They are free, supported by five glass petals propped up on the trunk of a nation. There are glints of colour and dark shadows of the underappreciated and often unseen challenges of integration, cultural understanding and cooperation. Lights and a susurration of polyphonic, multilingual voices underpin everything. Other themes include tolerance, opportunity, enterprise, growth, building, shipping, acceptance, gratitude …
39 in the title is spoken as san kyu in Japanese, widely used as text message slang for thank you.
39 to our community of collaborators.
39 for your understanding
Tensegrity, after artist Kārlis
Johansons, sculptor Ken
Snelson and architect R.
Buckminster Fuller, derives
its (structural) integrity from
(element) tension.
“But bog,
Meaning soft,
The fall of windless rain,
Pupil of amber”
– Seamus Heaney (1975)
Lullymore Time Capsule
Kathrine Geoghegan & Frank McCormack
light box of wooden construction with LED lighting. Acrylic on glass panels, alcohol ink on glass panels, photographic image, acetate
2024
€690
Proceeds of sale to be donated to the Irish Peatland Conservation Council
Holding Her Own
Annmarie Greevy, Maggie McCartney + Áine Teahan
Mixed Media
90cm x 180cm
2024
€2250
Through our work we investigate
the emotional, psychological and
physical impact that perimenopause
and menopause can have on a
person’s life. Menopause as a
journey, a rite of passage, a time
of questing & resting, a time of
creating & incubating, being of the
world and returning to the soulplace.
SWIMMERS
Josephine Mannion & Ciara McMahon
Oil on Linen, Audio
85cm x 45cm (2 painting 60 x 80 cm hinged
together at a 90 degree angle)
2024
€850
Sea water being contiguous worldwide includes contrasting spaces where people swim for pleasure while in other spaces, some swim for freedom from lives torn apart by war and politics. Swimmers explores
these experiences.
Mannion’s paintings contrast an idyllic sea swimming day with the darker, terrifying aspects of the sea experienced when seeking refuge and a better sociopolitical life. McMahon’s audio vignettes read by non-actors from around the world are accompanied by ambient sounds from Dun Laoghaire harbor, the New York 911 waterfall memorial and the North Sea.
BETIDE/ The Sea
Tina Poole and Derval Tubridy
Oil and Alkyd on Canvas
80cm x 80cm
2024
€700
Letters Home
Joyce Duffy and Derval Freeman
Installation comprising of:
6 – 30x30cms paintings – (3 Acrylic paintings by Derval Freeman and
3 Encaustic painting with Collage by Joyce Duffy) €350
1 large centre 60x80cms Acrylic and Collage Painting by both artists €850
1 Mp3 player with headphones Price: POA
Soundscape by Derval Freeman and Spoken Word by Joyce Duffy.
Paintings 1mtr x1mtr.
Sound approx. 3 mins
2024
The underlying theme of “Letters Home” is diversity and coming together. We see ‘crosscurrents’ as a flow and the coming together of difference. We are interested in exploring the history of Dun Laoghaire and it’s long association with immigration and emigration. In this collaboration we wish to celebrate diversity and the coming together of difference.
We have chosen the idea of “Letters Home” as both a methodology and a working title. Crosscurrents to us is a flow. A flow of communication and ideas. A flow of people. A flow of visual letters, embodying the idea of the coming together through communication and dialogue.
Established in 1850, the mailboat was part of Dun Laoghaire for many years, when letters were the main form of communication. Over the centuries Ireland had a history of letters from abroad. The mailboat even had a postal sorting office on board. The old mailboat has gone and the sea waves and crosscurrents of communication have been largely replaced by sound waves and airwaves.
Over the course of this collaboration, the artists exchanged visual letters, expressing their individual ideas and concerns. Much like the theme of the work the artists learnt how to accept and work with their differences collaboratively, coming together through the work.
Ebbtide
Theresa Hernandez – Painting
Promilla Luthra Shaw – Painting
Mary White – Haiku, Painting
Acrylic, mixed media on Canvas
68 x 80 cms (Framed + 5cms)
2024
€700
After Sobel
Erika Tyner and Anne Martin Walsh
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 90 cm
2024
€3200
Lifeline
Dylan Ryan, Éadaoin Glynn and Leslie O’Hanlon
Triptych mixed media on panels
60cm x 20cm
2024
€620
Photographer Dylan Ryan, visual artists Éadaoin
Glynn and Leslie O’Hanlon’s collaboration
piece explores the tension, connection and
interdependence between humans and nature.
Each artist created one of the three-panel
triptych taking Ryan’s monochrome photograph
as inspiration. The artists explored the visual
beauty of this tension and connection between
man and nature.
Rising Tides
Niall Meehan, Bairbre Murray, Gill Trapnell
Mixed Media
w: 39cm x h: 90cm
2024
€780
“Rising Tides” stands as a powerful
exploration of nature’s shifting
dynamics. The contrasting styles of
three distinct artists come together
within this piece, mirroring the
growing unease we now feel towards
the natural world. Jagged rocks,
barren branches, and turbulent seas
collide with an image of serenity,
itself interrupted with bold color
streaks, creating a dissonance that
reflects the tension between beauty
and the underlying environmental
threat. This convergence of
conflicting techniques underscores
the exhibition’s theme, questioning
whether we can still admire nature’s
beauty without acknowledging the
fragile reality beneath.
Ree
Joan Mulvihill, Nickie Harrington, Maureen Carroll McCormack
Acrylic Perspex, concrete
56cm (h) x 25 (d) x 25 (w)
2024
€1400
Ree was inspired by the water over rocks at the edges of Lough Ree, the meeting point on the Shannon where Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon converge. Joan, Nickie and Maureen are connected not only by their Dun Laoghaire associations but their family ties to these three midland counties. The perspex captures natural light in the way of water reflecting myriad colours and polishing the smooth rocks below. The skimming stone is a playful reference of childhood memories at the lake.
Flowing Connections
Oonagh O’Toole and Andrea Kavanagh
Visual artists Oonagh O’Toole and Andrea Kavanagh collaborated to create three framed works for the exhibition ‘Crosscurrents’ These pieces feature Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Crystacal R plaster botanical casts. Titled ‘Flowing Connections,’ I,II,III the artworks draw parallels between the remarkable journey of Irish native wild Atlantic Salmon, which swims upstream against all odds to spawn, and the local riverbank’s plant life. As the salmon mates, dies, and deposits Atlantic Ocean nutrients into the Irish river’s rich ecosystem, it relies on insects thriving on specific native Irish wild plants like Rannunculus/Crowfoot. This symbiotic cycle of successful salmon spawning and thriving plant life, fuelled by light, is crucial for maintaining healthy local rivers into the future.
“Flowing Connections I”
Framed Artwork –Oil Painting on Botanical Cast Plaster with Gold Leaf.
56cm x 45cm
2024
€940
“Flowing Connections II”
Framed Artwork –Oil Painting on Botanical Cast Plaster with Gold Leaf.
33cm x 41cm
2024
€620
“Flowing Connections III”
Framed Artwork –Oil Painting on Botanical Cast Plaster with Gold Leaf.
33cm x 41cm
2024
€620
Mo Chuisle Fhiáin
Siobhan McMahon – Poetry
Eithne Griffin – Visual Artist
Kymberly Dunne Fleming – Photographer
Mixed media and Photography
69cm Diameter
2024
€488
Our central concept is that of the feminine divine. At a time when the world is divided we as artists have sought to find a common vision. One of our central shared concepts is that we are all, whether we are aware of it or not, intrinsically connected to and a part of nature; we are immersed in the flux of the universe. We are one. Immersion in the sea is a shared joy and a path of coming back into ourselves. Our piece seeks to celebrate and honour our deep interwoven connection to the earth and her moon cycles.
Perch
Anthony Kelly & Padhraig Nolan
mixed media assemblage
78 x 86 cms (dimensions variable)
2024
POA
Harmony in Discord
Horace: ‘Concordia Discors’, a musical metaphor, from his 12th Epistle to Empedocles in 20 BC
Gaby Browett, Judy Carroll Deeley, and Ann Murphy
(h) 81 x (w) 67 cm
2024
€1500
SOLD
Harmony in Discord is a multi-media wall-based work with a QR code linked to an accompanying sound piece.
When setting out on this collaboration, we were interested in engaging with materials as a way of thinking about the meanings and resonances of the ‘Crosscurrents’ theme. We viewed our interaction with the materials – ‘which are always on their way to becoming something else’ – as a collaborative process in its own right (Tim Ingold, Making, 2013).
Harmony in Discord is an exploration of the possibilities for creativity that occur from the friction or fusion of opposites when they meet, collide, correspond or intersect. What comes increasingly into focus is the idea of the twin poles of creation and destruction as opposing yet inseparable forces, with creative tension being generated between the different elements. We wanted the piece to be open and suggestive rather than didactic, where form and materials play upon ideas of creation, destruction, energy and transformation. This three-dimensional, wallbased artwork is made of slatted wood, wires and mixed media. Wires protrude from each slat, and wooden shapes, polyester strips and charred fragments of maps of Italy from an ancient Baedeker travel guide are affixed to clothe the wires. The dimensions of the artwork are: 81 cm in height and 67 cm in width.
The musical connotations of Harmony in Discord suggest graphic notation, where the different elements come together to create texture, rhythm, dissonance and harmony. The melody is accessed via an accompanying QR code which can be scanned on the viewer’s mobile phone.
Lady’s Well
Orla Kaminska, Lenore Collins, Paula O’Riordan
Porcelain Heat Wire Sculpture
(H) 700cm (W) 25cm x 30cm
2024
€1500
Water sources have always been meeting places especially for women. Water sources are regularly called sacred springs or holy wells, and are regarded as sanctuaries in the landscape. All over the world from Ireland to Nigeria to Peru and Siberia these wells are venerated. As a necessity for life fresh water has always been precious. Guarded by taboos and rites some fresh water sources are considered thresholds or portals to Otherworlds Through ritual engagement with these sacred waters people seek cures and intentions which may involve a set of prayers or movements performed in a prescribed manner and also the placing of votive offerings. For thousands of years these wells have continued to attract people as havens of peace and contemplation.
“At Loggerheads”
Gráinne Carvill & Ross Carvill
Digital Pigment Prints using archival inks and archival Botanical 265gms paper. Original art pieces created in mixed medium: Acrylic, Marker, Oil Pastel and Pencil. The prints are wrapped onto a custom built lenticular structure and box framed with UV glass.
870mm x 520mm.
2024
€2600
The theme of the exhibition, Crosscurrents, is the coming together of two conflicting forces. Gráinne and Ross are mother and son, Ross is an illustrator currently living in Brooklyn New York and their piece depicts the sense of turbulence caused by displacement. The rutting of stags is a common occurrence in the fields that surround their home in south Dublin and became the visual inspiration for two worlds colliding. The lenticular device allows for the viewer to see perspective from both sides and in addition, the full force of the conflict, head on.
The Castaways
Sylvia Hill and Trish Nixon
Mixed Media, Multiple pieces
The small paintings are €150 each.
The domes are €250 each.
The binoculars and the book on the shelf are not for sale.
Childhood memories of days spent out at sea with our
respective fathers are at the core of this collaboration.
Two young girls, looking out to sea, imagining all the
possibilities of encounters as portrayed in various
1970’s films and seafaring tales, most significantly, the
epic “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” by Jules Verne.
The intangible and shifting nature of memory is
explored through the use of light refraction, distance
and depth beneath the waves as witnessed by us as
children.
‘…drives my red blood’ (after Dylan Thomas)
Stefanie Bruening: visual artist (metal embossing, photographs on metal)
Eleanor Dawson: musician (soundscapes from original sound-sources)
Kate MacDonagh: visual artist (wood, Japanese Washi)
Wood cuts, photograph, mixed media and sound, 2024
90cm X 90cm
POA
Our installation comprises a series of multiple miniatures, visual and sonic. Within the patterning of these miniatures certain themes and colours are repeated in an interplay between our three strands, although no two pieces are identical. The element of sound, and the listening process, pick up on and develop themes from the visual work, interweaving and creating a sense of three- or four-dimensional ‘space-time’.
The visual composition is made up of 79 individual wall pieces occupying the space from ceiling to floor. The materials used are carved wood, woodblock prints, embossed metal plates, and photographs on aluminium.
The sound-piece consists of twenty-three miniatures, from 10 seconds to just over 2 minutes in length, looped to play continuously, and employing a range of timbres – natural, instrumental and vocal.
The work draws on the relationship between natural structures, including the human body, and the elements in nature. The colour palette in our three-way collage reflects the inherent relationship between blood and water.
Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ evocative poem “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower”, we used the line “…drives my red blood” as our title.
Overprint
Aoife Dwyer and Ann Kavanagh
2024
Hand made artist book
20x18cm – when opened and 250cm in length, 18cm in width
plus 4 mounted prints
€700
Our proposal considers the sequential development of an image through the proofing process of printmaking. The multiple images printed onto beautiful paper is the starting point. We are interested in bringing new life to this byproduct of the process. Interacting and responding to each other’s collection of proofs has generated a creative energy to direct our explorations.
Overprint 1
25×25 cm
€300
Overprint 2
22×25 cm
€300
Overprint 3
22×25 cm
€300
Overprint 4
22×22 cm
€300
Subtle Forces
Diane Magee and Karen Ebbs
Birchwood ply, sea glass, porcelain, driftwood, stainless steel spring wire, acrylics and primer
H: 55cm X W: 50cm X D: 50cm
2024
€1200
The Names Are Written On Water
1 + 2
Ann Mulcrone, Maurice Quillinan
Ink and polychromos pencil on Arches paper
2 framed, 56 X 76cm
2024
€800 each.
My element was a response to your initial drawings. The text letters are the jumbled up names in all languages of all the people who used the river and oceans to find a better life in another country. They are unknown now and probably were as good as unknown in their day. The title comes from the John Keats headstone in Rome. His actual name is not inscribed.
Crisscrossing Beara
Cathy Leonard, poet
Brendan Brohan, sound artist
Marie-Hélène Brohan Delhaye, urban sketcher
Video, 2024
Not For Sale
We have worked together to produce words, sounds and sketches that capture the essence of the Beara Peninsula, at the crossroads of Kerry and Cork, a land between mountains and the sea, with the sky ever-present and hills so stark that they reveal many geological layers.
The resulting artwork is an MP4 video featuring 10 sketches done on location by Marie-Hélène, accompanied by poetry composed by Cathy inspired by the same landscape, along with soundscapes crafted by Brendan to enhance the visual and poetic elements contributed by Marie-Hélène and Cathy.
Coastal Curiosities
Deirdre Kearney and Marie Sheridan
Mixed media, recycled light fitting
60cm X 60cm X 10cm
2024
€1500
Our artwork looks at the effects of climate change on our coastal community, the subtle shifts in our climate as evidenced by the damage caused to the marine environment in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Bay. We invite you, the viewer, to connect with the vulnerability of the marine ecosystems that define this region, to reflect on the urgency of acknowledging and addressing the impact of global warming and the profound consequences of climate-induced shifts in the ecosystem.
We are seeing more frequent excessive rainfall events and how the resulting pollution has disrupted the proper operation of the sewage facilities in Dun Laoghaire & Dublin Bay. The data which documents these disruptions reflects the increased frequency of these events and points to the potential damage to the area, both as a public amenity and as a finely balanced natural habitat. In the longer term, rising sea levels could encroach upon familiar landmarks, blurring the boundary between land and sea.
Our wall hung “Coastal Curiosities” / Vitrine displays a number of small artworks inspired by the project. Our artwork utilises a recycled light fitting, comprising several mirrored compartments, which reflect and distort the display of mixed media artefacts. Our aim is to convey the sensory and emotional dimensions of this environmental narrative. We invite you to focus on the fragility of a landscape undergoing transformation. We have incorporated a QR code, with a link to the Department of the Environment’s website, Beaches.ie, giving more detailed information.
Littoral
Eliot Smith and Iris O’Connor
Photography and Sewn Net
(W)50cm x 100cm (L)
2024
€700
Our aim was to design a piece that reflects the human-made
debris that has been released into the sea and will, sometimes
after years or decades even, wash up on our shores.
Cross Migration
Veronica Heywood and Shabnam Vasisht
Mixed media, framed
50cm X 40cm
2024
€220
This is not just a collaboration between two members of ArtNetdlr, rather, it is a statement of their exotic backgrounds. Veronica Heywood explores her upbringing in Hong Kong while Shabnam Vasisht delves into her Indian background. Having lived in Ireland for most of their adult lives, they share the three cultures in the form of visual art and text. The peacock of India and crane of Hong Kong are acknowledged by their names in Hindi and Chinese. The Celtic pelmet they meet under represents Ireland, the chosen residence of the two artists.
Jewels of the Sea
Niki Collier – felt designer and visual artist
Cathy Dillon – writer and artist
Brian Fitzgerald – author and illustrator
Felt sculpture, audio & video, 2024
€2,500
Individual diatoms also available:
Our interactive project uses felt sculptures and poems to explore the colourful world of diatoms – tiny organisms that are found in abundance in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, and serve as food for many fish and animals. They are vital for our health and the health of our planet, but populations are in decline due to climate change.
Beyond the Narrative
Elena Buttner, Sandra Schoene
Wire, Porcelain, Plexiglass, Mesh
35x35x30
2024
€375
Mixed media composition of three small porcelain boats entangled in a wired vortex spiralling out of control. The porcelain boats symbolise purity, the child in us and innocence, unpolluted by ideas and perceptions. The installation as a whole is showing how one can become entangled in the crosscurrents of the perceptual meaning of words. Viewers are invited to reflect on words that have taken them on an emotional journey whether it may be positive or negative.
Of Glimpse and Dapple
Myra Jago / Sorca O’Farrell
oil on canvas and acrylic on canvas
90x60x4cm
2024
€3,400
Gaia
Fran Lambkin & Shirley Copperwhite
Jesmonite sculpture with hand painted design in acrylic paint.
37 cms high x 45 cms wide
2024
€900
This is Gaia, greek goddess of earth, mother of
all life. Reminding us that everything on earth is
connected and that we need to keep the balance in
our ecosystems for future generations.
Fragments
Jean Ryan and Serena Kitt
Ink on Fabriano paper
Framed 60 x 80 cm
Audio by Jean Ryan, art historian and storyteller
2024
€940
Reflection of Serenity
Fenassia and Rimiko Ogata
Triptych on Wood panel with Mixed Media
(H)300cm x (W) 350cm x (D) 5cm
2024
POA
Reflection of Serenity is a contemporary homage to Sr. Concepta Lynch, who dedicated her work in the oratory to honouring those who lost their lives in World War I.
Lonely Cry
Bonnie Kavanagh and Margie Dunne
Found Wooden Oars and Porcelain
285 cms x 35 cms (approx)
2024
€900
Our sculpture aims to echo feelings of anxiety, vulnerability, terror, and smallness experienced during a migration journey. But behind this, there is often a resilient thread of hope – a hope that keeps people moving forward in anticipation that things will improve.
How To Recycle Heirlooms
Brigid O’Brien, Lulu Sinnott (sisters)
Recycled material poetry sculpture.
60cm X 36cm X 3cm
2024
€200
RESERVED
The chair-seat represents the remnants of a whole family history. The kitchen table and chairs came from Highgate Hill, London, when grandparents William and Maude moved to Ireland after the war. On their deaths, the table and chairs came to our family. In the 1950’s, Lunch was served in the dining room by the
home help, but for convenience, modernity and labour-saving, it became fashionable to have an eat-in kitchen.
Postmodernist philosopher Jacques Derrida suggested that structures within a culture were artificial and could be deconstructed to be analysed. This represented a class change – the home help ate with us and became an equal friend rather than an unequal employee.
The women at the table discussed everything, including early feminism, family structures, social problems, all currents that fed our young minds. All of us have memories of those chairs – of homework done, of tears shed, of wonderful announcements, of cigarettes smoked, of boyfriends entertained, of worries shared, of sad goodbyes, of happy reunions.
Dialogue
Patrick Molloy
Denis Mortell
Acrylic on pigment ink on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Paper
Image size 60 x 60cms, Frame 72cm X 72cm
2024
€850
This response to the theme of Crosscurrents is a conversation between
painting and photography. Beginning with a photographic base image that
comprises mirror-image seascapes, the over-painting interrogates this
harmony introducing elements of dissonance, randomness and chance,
in addition to introducing abstraction into an otherwise figurative scene.
EVENTS
OCTOBER 2 – ArtNetdlr Coffee Dock | Walters26th September 2024 - 5:34 pm
OCTOBER 9 – Open Mic Night with Phil Lynch & Lulu Sinnott26th September 2024 - 5:29 pm
SEPTEMBER 14 – Call for Submissions | ArtNetdlr Members Group Exhibition IN BETWEEN21st September 2024 - 1:58 pm
SEPTEMBER 11 – Open Mic Night | Walters19th September 2024 - 11:46 pm
SEPTEMBER 6 – the Launch of CROSSCURRENTS Collaborative Project | dlr LexIcon18th September 2024 - 7:57 pm
