Pleasures & Wayward Distractions
3 May - 6 May 2007
Preview Thursday 3 May 2007 6-9pm
Broadstone XL is pleased to present Pleasures & Wayward Distractions, a group exhibition featuring selected work by artists Owen Boss, Laura Burke, Tim Cantillon, Siobhan Conway, Judy Carroll Deeley, John Donohoe, Niamh Farrell, Caroline Kennedy, Sabina Mac Mahon, Oisin McGovern, Michelle Melody, Molly Mishkas,Lesley-Ann O'Connell, Paula Salmikangas, Martin Smyth, Cornelius Thalbridge, Kathy Tynan, Bregtje Wolters, Mars Wright and Lee Welch.
These artists each employ different approaches to making art. The works are prompted by various caprices that come from both external sources (physical stimulus through the five senses) and internal sources (thought, emotion, daydreams, sex drive, etc.) each investigating personal histories that reveal intimate subtleties beneath the more immediate.
Pleasures & Wayward Distractions is put together with a broad variety of techniques including drawing, installation, painting, text and video. This group exhibition is intentionally open but not undefined placing the viewer within a framework that hopefully allows for a moment of wondering. The works pose questions where single meanings are denied offering a catalyst for unstructured creative interpretation and meditation.
Pleasures & Wayward Distractions is organized by the once in a lifetime collective. The exhibition is made possible by Tequila Ireland and with additional support from Treasury Holdings, Ernst & Young, M. Conway HPS LTD, Ulster Bank, Easons, Tiger and NCAD Student Union.
Hendron Building,
36-40 Upper Dominick Street,
Dublin 7, Ireland
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