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lucent https://lucent.international lucent Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:26:13 +0000 https://lucent.international en Front page copy https://lucent.international/Front-page-copy Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:26:13 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Front-page-copy About https://lucent.international/About Tue, 01 Oct 2019 21:10:58 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/About ‘Anything we can define distinguishes itself instantly from the productive spirit and is opposed’ Paul Valéry lucent a touring exhibition by international artists   Although I have curated quite a few exhibitions, I am first and foremost an artist, and not a curator. This exhibition is a very personal project. The work I have included, is by artists whose work and progress, I am always keen to see. I think there is a lot of truth, in Robert Motherwell's quote, 'every intelligent painter, carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints, is both a homage and critique.' To a greater or lesser extent, the artists in this exhibition, have been inspirational for me, or sometimes, it is just as Emerson said, 'in every work of genius, we recognise our own rejected thoughts'. One of the common threads, through the work of these artists, for me, is a sensitivity for materials, and for the quality of line. Most of the artists here, also blur the distinction between painting and sculpture. Their sculptures can be quite painterly, and there is a subtle tactile element even to their works on paper. The other thing that interests me, is that, it is often hard to pin down exactly, what the works are about (if that is what one is inclined to do). There is an inherent ambiguity, in lots of the work, a vague open-endedness. Also, the scale, that these artists often work on, is intimate and personal. The works are memorable rather than monumental, suggestive rather than didactic, playful rather than strict. Where there is order, it is often subverted and generally an air of gentle irreverence prevails. Ultimately though, the thing that draws these works together, for me, is that, they are made with the attentiveness, and care, that comes from a labour of love. David Quinn, 2023 curatorlucent is dedicated to memory to Janet Mullarney who died in 2020. lucent is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon as part of the 2023 – Strategic Funding – Touring – Arts Centres Grant, and initiated and developed by Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. The tour of lucent began in Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre and ran from 9 July to 9 September 2023. It then travelled to Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda from February to April of this year and will run in Wexford Arts Centre from Saturday 15 June to Wednesday 31 July, 2024. lucent is dedicated to memory to Janet Mullarney 9 July to August, 2023 in Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 10 February to 27 April, 2024 in Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda 15 June to 30 July, 2024in Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford 17 January to 15 March  2025 in The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth charlie brady - niamh clarke  - hiroyuki hamada - vincent hawkins - tjibbe hooghiemstra -jamie mills - janet mullarney  -helen o’leary  -david quinn  - seamus quinn - sean sullivan  -john van oers  - <img width="856" height="280" width_o="856" height_o="280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d26593fa54c8e85a44a28e305d807712003660d2f0a58d83dfe34c23a5880347/ac-funding-visual-arts-ke-rgb-black.png" data-mid="209755321" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/856/i/d26593fa54c8e85a44a28e305d807712003660d2f0a58d83dfe34c23a5880347/ac-funding-visual-arts-ke-rgb-black.png" />With thanks to Ann Davoren, Director and her team at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre; the team at Highlanes Gallery; Catherine Bowe, Curator - Visual Art and the team at Wexford Arts Centre; Mary Ryder, Jessica Taylor, John Taylor and Pat Taylor of Taylor Galleries, Stephanie Jaax, Sarah Cunningham, and Francesco Rossi and Claire Oberst of ROSSICONTEMPORARY. Niamh Clarke https://lucent.international/Niamh-Clarke Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:24:17 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Niamh-Clarke niamh clarke Niamh Clarke. Born in 1983 in Newry. Based in Newry/Belfast.Niamh graduated from Ulster University in 2019. Her first solo exhibition was ‘the transient and the perishing’, Platform Gallery, Belfast (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Ode to Light’, Arcade Gallery, Belfast (2023) and ‘Quiet Wanders Laughing’ Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2023). Niamh is member of Queen Street Studios, Belfast.niamhclarke.info <img width="3818" height="3818" width_o="3818" height_o="3818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5281a180134d3df2c8be4bf5c7c89d2502187597fe754b09182ce18708739fdb/niamh.jpg" data-mid="202022675" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5281a180134d3df2c8be4bf5c7c89d2502187597fe754b09182ce18708739fdb/niamh.jpg" /> Charlie Brady https://lucent.international/Charlie-Brady Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:32:03 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Charlie-Brady charles brady Charles Brady. Born in New York in 1926. Died in Ireland in 1997. Charles served in the US Navy during World War II. He had a series of mundane jobs after returning from war and took night classes in drawing, studying at the Art Students League in New York. He first visited Ireland in 1956 and settled here permanently in 1959. Brady was best known as a painter of everyday objects in an understated manner, usually on a modest scale. He exhibited extensively in Ireland and the United States. <img width="2259" height="1965" width_o="2259" height_o="1965" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84f1eb41732b19f76c38819271ea4ebfd11edd5f48624344d5f6011baa2c6224/charles-brady.jpg" data-mid="202029862" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84f1eb41732b19f76c38819271ea4ebfd11edd5f48624344d5f6011baa2c6224/charles-brady.jpg" /> Hiroyuki Hamada https://lucent.international/Hiroyuki-Hamada Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:27:23 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Hiroyuki-Hamada hiroyuki hamada Hiroyuki Hamada. Born in Tokyo in 1968. Lives in East Hampton, New York. Hiroyuki has exhibited widely throughout the United States, in Europe and in Asia. He has been awarded various residencies including those at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person’s Center, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the MacDowell Colony. Hamada’s work has been featured in various publications, including Stokstad and Cothren’s widely used art history text book Art: A Brief History (Pearseon). He  was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 1998 and was been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in 2009 and in 2017). In 2018 he was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Parrish Art Museum Road Show, South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center, New York (2023);  Hiroyuki Hamada, Gana Art Bogwang, Seoul (2022); and Hiroyuki Hamada New Work, Bookstein Fine Art, New York (2022). Hiroyuki is represented by Bookstein Projects, New York.hiroyukihamada.com <img width="425" height="287" width_o="425" height_o="287" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbf24ac77bf9a0f30f38dba9c2d56af93495ef8a991799b9afb0c244b907176a/0175-right-8818.jpg" data-mid="154486913" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/425/i/cbf24ac77bf9a0f30f38dba9c2d56af93495ef8a991799b9afb0c244b907176a/0175-right-8818.jpg" /> Vincent Hawkins https://lucent.international/Vincent-Hawkins Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:37:00 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Vincent-Hawkins vincent hawkins Vincent Hawkins. Born in England in 1959.Lives and works in London. Vincent has been exhibiting internationally for many years, having had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Paris and London. Recent exhibitions include, ‘Beyond The Walls of One’s Own Making’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, (2023); 'Planet and Satellites', l'ahah, Paris, (2023) and 'Art in The Chapels', Chapel of St Tugdual-Pontivy, Brittany (2022). Vincent has been included in group shows in the USA, Italy, the UK, France (most recently in the 2023 edition of the Sillon Festival, Rhône-Alpes). In 2006 Vincent was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and was a Prize Winner in John Moore’s 24, in the same year. He was selected to exhibit at PaintLounge / Sluice in late 2018. Vincent is represented by Sid Motion Gallery, London.sidmotiongallery.co.uk <img width="1671" height="2134" width_o="1671" height_o="2134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85e085032d22d75d1d66ce63b9362b1084e0640c9920a1e68aa37b4316f8f968/vincent.jpg" data-mid="202024615" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85e085032d22d75d1d66ce63b9362b1084e0640c9920a1e68aa37b4316f8f968/vincent.jpg" /> Tjibbe Hooghiemstra https://lucent.international/Tjibbe-Hooghiemstra Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:14:14 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Tjibbe-Hooghiemstra tjibbe hooghiemstra Tjibbe Hooghiemstra. Born in 1957 in the Netherlands. Lives in the Netherlands.Tjibbe has exhibited in galleries from New York to Tokyo as well as at many international art fairs, including Art Basel, FIAC Paris and Art Forum Berlin. In 1997 Tjibbe exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2008 his work was shown in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. His work is held in various private and public collections, including those of the Irish National Collection of Contemporary Drawing; the Model in Sligo; the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.tjibbehooghiemstra.com <img width="2000" height="1490" width_o="2000" height_o="1490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69cb837905f66c6e86e66952680889705b54ceec69e5351220516c6f180fa619/TjH006.jpg" data-mid="53774681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69cb837905f66c6e86e66952680889705b54ceec69e5351220516c6f180fa619/TjH006.jpg" /> Jamie Mills https://lucent.international/Jamie-Mills Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:54:18 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Jamie-Mills jamie mills Jamie Mills. Born in 1983. Lives in Cornwall. Jamie is a multi-disciplinary visual and sound artist, graduating with a Fine Art degree from the University of Gloucestershire in 2006. Since then he has been working both as a solo artist, and collaboratively with other artists, poets, filmmakers and musicians, in the UK, and internationally. Recent projects include ‘Sanctuary (A Space Under the Tongue)’, a solo exhibition of sculpture and paperworks at HWEG, Cornwall (2023); musical composition and sound production for a series of documentary films by Awen Productions (2022-2023); and ‘Wheel of the Year’;  a mixed online programme of exhibitions, Anima Mundi, Cornwall (2022 – 2023). Jamie’s work is held in public and private collections throughout the UK and Europe.jamiemills.co.uk <img width="4800" height="6000" width_o="4800" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d2e1109553e22ba48cf92c23527bc9a39aede827035ab0a99d7198a710353e6/jedniezgoda.com_Uillinn_Lucent_22_High-Res.jpg" data-mid="202025538" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d2e1109553e22ba48cf92c23527bc9a39aede827035ab0a99d7198a710353e6/jedniezgoda.com_Uillinn_Lucent_22_High-Res.jpg" />   Janet Mullarney https://lucent.international/Janet-Mullarney Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:56:29 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Janet-Mullarney janet mullarney Janet Mullarney. Born in 1952 in Dublin. Died in 2020 in Florence.Janet exhibited extensively in both Ireland and abroad.  Amongst the many awards she received were the RUA Perpetual Silver Medal; The RHA Sculpture Award; the Irish American Cultural Institute’s O’Malley Award; and The Pollock Krasner Award. Solo exhibitions included Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery; The Hugh Lane; the Royal Hibernian Academy; Highlanes Gallery; Crawford Municipal Gallery; Limerick City Gallery; Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Oaxaca, Mexico; and Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno. She made many sculptures for public spaces including in Groningen, Holland; Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; and Cherry Orchard Primary School, Dublin. Janet Mullarney was a member of Aosdana.janetmullarney.com  <img width="1204" height="800" width_o="1204" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02125118f312599a4f09a45f1af25f2ab97242edfb16421b7b43af12bfdceb23/JanetMullarney3_2010.jpg" data-mid="51932930" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02125118f312599a4f09a45f1af25f2ab97242edfb16421b7b43af12bfdceb23/JanetMullarney3_2010.jpg" /> Helen O'Leary https://lucent.international/Helen-O-Leary Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:56:30 +0000 lucent https://lucent.international/Helen-O-Leary helen o’leary Helen O’ Leary. Born in 1961 in Wexford. Lives in New Jersey and Drumshanbo.Helen O’Leary was born in County Wexford, Ireland, and received her BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1991 she has been a Professor at the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University. Helen was recently awarded a John S. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, as well as the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship from The American Academy in Rome. Additional awards include two Pollock-Krasner awards, and a Joan Mitchell Award for painting and sculpture. Exhibitions include the National Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland;  Glasgow Museum of Art, Glasgow, Scotland; The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. Her work is represented in national and international collections.helenoleary.com <img width="6000" height="4286" width_o="6000" height_o="4286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fefd1678f581d1be55b087706f8ffa4ab70ab520a694c600cfbdc9ba2dd7b27/jedniezgoda.com_Uillinn_Lucent_28_High-Res.jpg" data-mid="202026314" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fefd1678f581d1be55b087706f8ffa4ab70ab520a694c600cfbdc9ba2dd7b27/jedniezgoda.com_Uillinn_Lucent_28_High-Res.jpg" />