Work by recipients of the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award will be featured at Geological Cake, a joint exhibition between the Burren College of Art and Gallery 126.
Taking place at the Burren College of Art on February 3rd from 6pm to 8pm, the opening reception will include a talk by geologist, Eamon Doyle, from Burren Geopark.
Geological Cake, constructs ersatz topographies, monuments, edifices and pseudo-geographies. In a fragmentary era where things, both tangible and technological, are fluid and in flux, the work attempts to document, reproduce and reference the Artist’s direct environs.
Utilizing discarded, quarried and invisible technological geographies the four artists (Liing Heaney, Alex Holzinger, Fiona Kelly & Dervla Mulcahy) visually explore historical, geological, psychological and gadgetry debris to construct ley lines in which to navigate a terrain saturated with stuff. Absorbed in the landscape are layers of anthropic intervention within this ancient gateaux.
The Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award is an annual award offered by the Burren College of Art in conjunction with artist-led gallery G126. Each year four emerging Irish artists are selected from an open submission and given the opportunity for a focused period of producing work during a one month residency at BCA.
This group of artists then work collaboratively with G126 to produce a large scale show that takes place in both galleries at a later date. EIARA started in 2014 during the Burren College of Art’s 20 year celebrations, and was conceived as a way of discovering and supporting emerging talent in Ireland’s contemporary art scene.