Double
Vision
A joint exhibition of Prints and Paintings
by Niamh Moran and Bob Lynn
Sunday 11th May to Friday 30th May
Riverbank Arts Centre
Niamh
Moran and Bob Lynn will be the next two artists to be
featured at the Riverbank Arts Centre for the month of May.
The exhibition, entitled Double Vision, will be officially
opened on Sunday 11th May at 3.00pm. Niamh will be showing in the
Upper Gallery and Bob will be exhibiting in the McKenna Gallery.
After a very successful month as Artist-in-Residence at
the Riverbank Arts Centre last month, we will now see the fruits
of Niamh’s labour. In conjunction with painter, Bob Lynn (who
also works at the Leinster Printmaking Studio), they will fill the
Riverbank Galleries with their very different styles of work.
Niamh, from Naas, who works predominantly as a printmaker,
graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2001. She is
now a member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio in Clane, Co Kildare
and has shown her work all over Ireland. In 2002 Niamh received
an award for ‘Most Promising Emerging Artist’ at the
Dunlavin Arts Festival. Her prints are a window into a world of
dreams. She herself describes her work as fantastical, where mythical
creatures and magical places exist. She uses the print technique
of collograph drypoints (a drawing is incised into cardboard using
a sharp point and then built up in layers using media such as acrylic,
carborundum and other objects). Once the printing is done she then
hand paints the images using matt solid blocks of colour.
Bob Lynn, born in Scotland, and now living in Wicklow, has
travelled, studied and worked in London and Poland. Originally a
graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art, Bob was until last year
the chairman of Éigse and is the curator of this year’s
show. RTÉ have also featured Bob on The Arts Show. Among
other talents, Bob has tutored in the Burren Painting Centre and
also in Italy. He mainly paints in oils, using vibrant strong colours
to convey his abstract figures and landscapes. Along with his broad-brush
strokes and pulsating colours he evokes space and haziness on to
the canvas.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 12th May
until Friday 30th May 2003, and will be on view in both galleries.
Gallery opening hours
are Monday to Saturday 10am to 1pm, and 2pm to 5pm.
For further information, please contact Gráinne Dunne or
Catríona Fallon on 045 448314/5.
Riverbanks Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare
e-mail artscentre@riverbank.ie