Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Aleana Egan
Liam Gillick
Callum Innes
Merlin James
Elizabeth Magill
Jennifer Mehigan
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
With support from
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Interval I, 2023
Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, Lurex
edition of 3 + 2AP
295 x 396 cm / 116.1 x 155.9 in
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Lucy I, 2023
Hand-printed C-type print on archival photo paper, framed
edition of 3 + 1AP
32 x 47.5 cm / 12.6 x 18.7 in (image size)
53 x 68.5 x 4 cm / 20.9 x 27 x 1.6 in (framed)
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Dorje, 2023
Hand-printed C-type print on archival photo paper, framed
edition of 3 + 1AP
32 x 47.5 cm / 12.6 x 18.7 in (image size)
53 x 68.5 x 4 cm / 20.9 x 27 x 1.6 in (framed)
Liam Gillick
Relay Complex, 2023
powder-coated aluminium
60 x 60 x 10 cm / 23.6 x 23.6 x 3.9 in
Callum Innes
Untitled Lamp Black / Deep Violet, 2023
oil on Birch Ply
110 x 108 cm / 43.3 x 42.5 in
Callum Innes
Untitled Lamp Black / Alizarin Claret, 2023
oil on linen
180 x 175 cm / 70.9 x 68.9 in
Merlin James
Old Buildings, 2023
acrylic, wood and mixed materials
114 x 105 cm / 44.9 x 41.3 in
Jennifer Mehigan
flowerfield femdom, 2023
glitter, pearl pigment, gouache and inkjet on canvas
150 x 100 cm / 59.1 x 39.4 in
Jennifer Mehigan
cornbitch, 2023
gouache, pearl pigment and inkjet on canvas
150 x 100 cm / 59.1 x 39.4 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Interval I, 2023
Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, Lurex
edition of 3 + 2AP
295 x 396 cm / 116.1 x 155.9 in
Elizabeth Magill
Red Iris, 2022
oil on canvas
128 x 146 cm / 50.4 x 57.5 in
about the artists
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Samuel Laurence Cunnane
b. 1989, Co Kerry, Ireland
Samuel Laurence Cunnane is a young Irish artist working with analogue photography. Part of a multiyear project made while driving across continental Europe, these hand-printed photographs capture moments of idiosyncratic beauty that catch the artist’s eye as he passes from place to place. Cunnane documents the surfaces and textures of urban and rural locales and the peripheral zones between them: signposts, building sites, midcentury architecture; the tangled woodlands and desolate roadsides that orbit settlements. Offering an intimate counterpoint to the transience of life on the road, he also captures his friends in moments of quiet repose. These portraits capture light falling delicately on the backs of hands, shoulders and necks, illuminating subjects who seem inattentive to the camera’s gaze.
Samuel Laurence Cunnane has had solo exhibitions in New York, Shunde, Istanbul and Dublin. His work can be found in the collections of the The TIA Collection, Sante Fe, USA; National Gallery of Ireland; the Arts Council of Ireland; the Trinity College Art Collection, Dublin; and OCT Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China. A publication with a text by Brian Dillon, Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London, was published in 2020 and is available here.
Aleana Egan
b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland
Aleana Egan engenders psychological states through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. A meandering, sensuous line is carried from her sculptures into her paintings, populated by fragmentary shapes that hint at solid forms or gesture towards movement. The artist manipulates colour, surface, texture and density, layering thin, watery washes with thicker daubs. This interplay between lightness and dissolution, solidity and translucency creates atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, allowing them to enter a symbiotic and mutable relationship with their sculptural counterparts, articulating a distinct worldview infused by literary, cinematic, and architectural references as well as memories imprinted deep in the psychic landscape.
Aleana Egan has exhibited at Sculpture Center, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; The Drawing Room and Jerwood Space, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; Leeds Art Gallery; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, and the Berlin Biennale. Current solo exhibitions include Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (23 March – 19 May 2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery (2023); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021); NICC Vitrine Brussels (2020) and Farbvision, Berlin (2019).
Liam Gillick
b. 1964, Aylesbury, England
One of the most important figures in international contemporary art, Liam Gillick works across diverse forms, including sculpture and installation. Gillick’s line of enquiry is into conditions of production, including how it continues to operate in a post-industrial landscape: questions of economy, labour and social organisation are ongoing preoccupations. He is perhaps best-known for producing sculptural objects – platforms, screens, models, benches, prototypes, signage, or structural supports made from sleek modular Plexiglas and aluminium forms in standardised colours from the RAL system. These seductive materials speak the language of renovation and development: originally refined by the military, they’ve been widely used in corporate interiors since the 1990s, a decade in which post-industrial societies saw a shift from the collective to the individualist and privatised.
Liam Gillick has had solo exhibitions in many of the world’s leading museums, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Zürich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Pergamonmuseum, Berlin; Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; MAGASIN, Grenoble; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate Britain, London and IMMA, Dublin. Forthcoming exhibitions include Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (April 2024). Recent solo exhibitions include the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (2023); Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea; Sankt Peter, Cologne (both 2021); Madre Museum, Naples; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthaus Zürich; Neues Museum Nürnberg; Potter Museum, Melbourne (all 2019). Gillick has participated in major international exhibitions including Okayama Art Summit, Japan and the Venice, Shanghai, Istanbul and Yinchuan biennales.
Callum Innes
b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland
Over the past 35 years, Callum Innes has developed a completely individual approach to painting that explores all the myriad possibilities of the medium. By repeatedly applying and dissolving layers of paint pigment, rich in texture and colour, Innes exposes the fundamentals of the paint itself. Full of humanity and fallibility, his art strives for a balance between precision and imperfection, opacity and luminosity, contemplation and material presence. Recently Innes has continued to develop and refine his oeuvre by introducing colours of heightened intensity and depth and by advancing a new series of circular or ‘Tondo’ paintings, resonating with the history of art and redefining its contemporary potential.
Callum Innes has been the subject of solo exhibitions at De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the ICA, London; the Scottish National Gallery, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Modern Art Oxford; the Whitworth, Manchester; IMMA, Dublin, and Château La Coste, Provence. His work can be found in the collections of Albright-Knox, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museé des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; National Galleries of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate Gallery, London.
Merlin James
b. 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Merlin James approaches the history and legacy of painting with a highly considered and unconventional viewpoint. Generally small in scale, his works depict diverse subject matter including vernacular architecture, riverside views, post-industrial landscapes, empty interiors, mysterious figures and scenes of sexual intimacy. His ‘frame paintings’ on gauzy, sheer material treat the structure of the picture frame and stretcher bar as an integral part of the work, while works on canvas might be collaged with tufts of hair or sawdust, distressed, pierced, cropped or heavily overpainted. Also an erudite and thoughtful critic, James engages deeply with the history of art and this knowledge shapes and informs his practice.
Merlin James has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Venice Biennale, Wales Pavilion; Sikkema Jenkins, New York; KW Institute, Berlin; Kunstsaele, Berlin; CCA, Glasgow; Kunstverein, Freiberg; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; OCT, Shunde & Shenzhen; Anton Kern, New York; Philadelphia Art Alliance. Selected international collections include Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 2023 saw the release of a landmark new publication gathering 40 years of the artist’s work.
Elizabeth Magill
b. 1959, Canada
Elizabeth Magill’s highly idiosyncratic paintings present subjective and psychological takes on the landscape genre. Rich with kaleidoscopic patterning and fragmented forms, these vistas are embedded in place – usually rural settings on the edges of settlements – but transported through the artist’s imagination, memories, photographs or moods to be presented as something other: lush, visionary recollections of hills, lakes, hedges and skies glowing with ambient light. The term ‘inscape’ has been used to describe Magill’s practice: landscapes not based on direct observation, but imbued with a sense of interiority and reflection.
Elizabeth Magill has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; PEER, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Milton Keynes Gallery; BALTIC, Gateshead; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Southampton City Art Gallery and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Recent solo shows include Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2023); Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2022); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2021, 2020); Pent House, Margate (2020); New Art Gallery, Walsall; 12 Star Gallery, London (both 2019); Ulster Museum, Belfast; Matt’s Gallery, London; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (all 2018) and Limerick City Gallery of Art (2017). Magill’s work can be found in the collections of the Tate, London; the British Museum; the National Gallery of Australia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; the Ulster Museum; the Crawford, Cork; the Government Art Collection, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Jennifer Mehigan
b. 1988, Singapore
Jennifer Mehigan’s paintings fuse diverse media and sources, combining digital and analogue techniques and expressions of the world. Alongside paint, Mehigan’s materials and processes might include inkjet, glitter, graphics cards, neural networks, pearl powder and gel, while her wider practice incorporates CGI, sculpture, perfumery, writing, parties, artificial intelligence and horticulture, deploying a wide array of sensory experiences to explore queerness and femininity.
Recent exhibitions include Uncensored Lilac, with Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, transmediale studio, Berlin (2024); 4D MOUND NETWORK, An Chultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast; HERE COMES LOVE, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (both 2023); Nightbloom Chokehold at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2022) and Creamatorium 2 at transmediale, Berlin (2021).
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
b. 1978, Clare, Ireland
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Her Jacquard tapestry Interval I combines striking imagery of underground caves, architectural ruins, strange animals and archival portraits. Measuring almost 10 x 13 feet, this visually arresting work threads an imagined line between contemporary threats of extinction and ancient narratives of the underworld.
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, with exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennale; Hammer Museum, LA; Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; CCA, Glasgow; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. In 2024, Ní Bhriain will exhibit at Innsbruck International Biennial, Kunsthal Gent, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Lismore Castle Arts. Public collections of her work include MAC Lyon; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Trinity College Dublin; The Arts Council of Ireland; and Office of Public Works, Ireland.
