Marilyn Gaffney at The Eden Gallery

The Eden Gallery at Cavan County Museum presents artworks by visual artist Marilyn Gaffney.

Marilyn Gaffney holds an MFA from the National College of Art and Design.  She is the recipient
of the John O’Leary Award in 2010 from Sligo Institute of Technology.  She received the
D.O. Sullivan Medal Award in 2009 from Sligo IT.  Exhibiting both nationally and internationally;
her most recent work is currently on display in Naperville, California.

I am interested in our relationship to landscape and how particular places hold memories and
can embody emotional responses.  A snapshot memory of a place may be recreated through
automatic responses with material as a form of remembering.  This relationship of memory and
landscape brings about an emotional response because the place holds sentiment.  The notion
of Urban Memory and the loss of certain things within a place when it has been changed
features as research within my work.   I am interested in the combination of representation
and abstraction in painting. 

Exhibition runs until 16th September 2014

For Further Information Contact:

Cavan County Museum,
Virginia Road,
Ballyjamesduff,
Co. Cavan.
Ireland
Tel: 353 49 8544070
Email: ccmuseum@eircom.net

more information here on Cavan Arts and on DNote.

Arterie Fine Arts California U.S.A. 

presents

"Science & Art " Juried Show

September 2 – September 30

Opening Artists Reception
Awards Ceremony
Saturday, September 13th
6:00pm - 9:00pm

Critique of Artwork
6:30pm

Mind Map II, Mixed Media, 2013

Artists Include:

Shawna Jones (Chicago,IL),

Bri Murphy (Lincoln, NE),

William McKissock (Norwalk CT),

Sandra Allain (Urbana-Champaign, IL),

Stephen C.K. Rooney (Beaver Falls, PA),

Kunal Sen (Chicago,IL),

Megan Randlett (Northampton, MA),

Hannah Marie Stahulak (San Francisco, CA),

Sean Hottois (South Bend, IN),

Marilyn Gaffney (Dublin, Ireland),

Amy Hassan (Homer Glen, IL),

Szymon Madejski (Bristol, England),

Agata Wisniowska (Brighton, MA),

Shane A. a.k.a. blueblackred (Colorado),

Wind Flow Photography: Candace Wark& Shirley Nannini (Chicago, IL),

Dorothy Graden (Valparaiso, IN),

Teresa Parod (Evanston, IL),

Sara Peak Convery (Chicago, IL),

Jamilah Hassan (Homer Glen, IL)

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Cognition

A Solo Exhibition by Visual Artist Marilyn Gaffney

1 – 30 June | Opening: 1 June at 6pm
Upstairs Gallery, Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny
Opening hours: 10am-6pm week days, Saturday 2pm-6pm

Investigating the mental process of knowing through the process of painting forms as research within this new body of work. Awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment are obvious applications of conscious reasoning but thought takes many subtler forms, such as interpreting. Sensory input, guiding physical actions and empathizing with others.
Cognition refers to thinking.

The image is disrupted by the printing process with zooming, ink running out and other printer ‘mistakes’. Layering back the photographic images, in parts, to its negative format. Sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered and used. This informs the work through the painting process whereby ‘mistakes’ are allowed on the canvas and abstraction comes to play within a semi- representational image of portraits.

For further information please check out www.facebook.com/upstairsgallerykilkenny

 Memories - A Homecoming

  A Solo Exhibition by Visual Artist Marilyn Gaffney

Memories depicts a title I have been investigating for a number of years within my practice. A Homecoming describes this moment in time within my practice whereby I have ventured back to local ground to display works which previously have ventured further a field internationally and nationally within Ireland but not in my home county.  

                                                                             Rural Memory, 6ft X 7ft, mixed media, 2013

I am interested in a relationship to landscape and how particular places hold memories and can embody emotional responses.  A snapshot memory of a place may be recreated through automatic responses with material as a form of remembering.  This relationship of memory and landscape brings about an emotional response because the place holds sentiment.

The notion of Urban Memory and the loss of certain things within a place when it has been changed features as research within my work.  Working intuitively, I re-create places previously visited through my memory.  My work involves the process of collage and the printing technique through using inkjet printers, photocopiers and scanners.  Manipulation of the image by printing process with zooming, ink running out and other printer ‘mistakes’ informs the work with textures of a language close to painting.  I am interested in the combination of representation and abstraction in painting.  The non-representational is met through the ‘mistake’ marks made in the printing process, while the representational are created by building up of textures and tones.

Introducing a spatial dimension as a result of the sculptural pieces created; manipulation of paper is pivotal to the sculptural works.  Stitching paper together creates forms that appear embodied of a person within the land and the overall piece creating a presence within the space.  There are a wider range of possibilities to the space as a result when introducing the three-dimensional aspect into the work.

Biography:

Marilyn Gaffney holds a Masters Fine Art in painting from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.  Born in Westmeath.  She lives and works in Dublin.

She earlier obtained the D. O’ Sullivan Award in 2009 and John O’Leary award in 2010 which entailed her to undertake residencies abroad.  She earlier graduated with a Distinction grade (B.A Ordinary Degree) in Fine Art from IT Sligo.  She graduated with First Class Honours (B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art) from Sligo Institute of Technology. 

Marilyn has had various exhibitions in Ireland, Britain and Europe.  Her most recent work was exhibited in Colorado and California U.S.A.

Exhibition show Opening 6th February 2014 at 6.15pm at The Atrium, Westmeath County Council Buildings, Mullingar, County Westmeath.

Wine & Refreshment Reception.  Special Guest Speaker. All Welcome.

Exhibition Runs until the 27th February 2014.

Contact:  Email:   gaffney.marilyn@gmail.com

               Website:  www.marilyngaffney.blogspot.ie