Courting Something of the Night

THE Courthouse Gallery will hold three exhibitions in the coming weeks. Something of the Night, a painting and a sculptural installation by Mary Noonan and Peter Burns takes place from this Friday until November 29.

Peter Burns makes paintings and objects in a variety of materials. The paintings have sculptural elements and the objects are strongly linked to the practice of painting.

“I have a very tactile and experimental approach to my work. In the paintings, chunks of old dried oil paint are often attached to the canvas, while in other areas, paint is scraped off to reveal underlying layers. The objects are made using ephemeral materials such as wax combined with found objects. They are painted, small in scale and often fragile,” said Peter.

An exhibition of animations by Carles Casasín on hunger, lullaby and melancholia, also runs for the month of November.
“My animations are allegories set in an imaginary world where fantasy and reality merge like in dreams. The atmosphere is charged with psychological undertones. The recurring goat man represents the animal side of human nature, our primary instincts gradually fading from our genetic make-up. To create my images, I work with oil paintings, watercolours, ink, charcoal and pencil drawings, oil pastels, crayons, digital drawing, photography and Photoshop,” the Ballyvaughan resident explained.

In the Red Couch Space at the gallery, Entropical, an exhibition of paintings by Rupert Bagwell, runs simultaneously.
Bagwell’s work for this exhibition was initiated by an interaction with the ideas of emptiness and balance and taking them as reference points during the creative process.

The exhibition and the images are presented with working titles as descriptions. Rupert lives in Liscannor and is a studio artist at the Courthouse Gallery.