The Burren Annual Exhibition 2024 features Scottish artist Keith McIntyre, who explores coastal geological phenomena through mural scale drawing, print, performance and film.
Mullach Mòr – translated from Irish Gaelic means ‘the big rock’. In Scots Gaelic a similar word Moladh translates as ‘in praise of’ and prefixes the place or person to be eulogised in a poem or song. In Manx Gaelic the word is Mollyee.
“Big rocks have an impact on our lives and communities often becoming immortalised into legend and folklore. Deep time geology, mimetoliths and our cultural heritage are symbiotically linked with a sense of place” – Keith McIntyre.
In his first solo exhibition in Ireland McIntyre continues his interest in geology that has developed a significant cultural presence in the landscape through a collective community imagining. Work presented will include the Elephant Rocks from Northumbria, the Vestmannaevjar Islands in Iceland and the Drinking Dragon from the Isle of Man.
Keith McIntyre lives and works on the small Island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. The exhibition will coincide with a research visit to develop a new project specific to the Burren area thus extending the Moladh/Mollyee/Mullach connected theme between the human and physical geography of our northern and Atlantic coastlines.
The exhibition will include ‘Mollyee Yn Burro’ a film collaboration with Andy Mackinnon at Uist Film, commissioned for the Isle of Man Arts Festival.
The Burren Annual Exhibition brings Irish and international artists working with diverse modes of practice to the Burren to engage local and visiting audiences. Inaugurated in 2004 it foregrounds Burren College of Art as a site for discourse and artistic engagement and prioritises the rural as a hub for building local and international creative networks.
The Burren Annual is supported by funding from the Arts Office at Clare County Council. Keith McIntyre’s work is supported by a Research Grant from the Royal Scottish Academy.
elephant rocks, drinking dragons and other geo phenomena
An exhibition by Keith McIntyre
Burren Annual Exhibition 2024
September 26 – October 23, 2024
Opening Reception: Thurs, Sept 26 from 6.00-8.00pm
‘Hey skipper, do you believe me now?
Public Lecture by Keith McIntyre
Wednesday, September 25, 11.00am-12.30pm