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The Ritual, oil on linen, 60 x 58 cm, 2022
Exhibition
Emmet Kierans - Second Nature
14 Jul 2022 – 24 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Unit 2 Boothby Rd
- Archway
- London
England - N19 4AJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses from central London: 4, 17, 43, 134
- Archway (Northern Line) / Holloway Rd (Overground)
An Exhibition of new paintings by Emmet Kierans
About
In this solo exhibition of paintings, Kierans has depicted surreal scenarios that are conjured from his imagination. Although often dealing with everyday experiences, these sometimes unsettling images hover between horror and science fiction.
The artist is interested in how imagination shapes and transforms our experience and how internal narratives are conceived and influence our thoughts, imagination, dreams, and desires. Specific motifs taken from popular culture appear and reappear: Tippie Hedren, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic heroines, is seen in one work as a topless gardener in rubber gloves tending a young sapling, and in another as a faceless shop dummy in a complex painting, where strange and seemingly unrelated characters are jostled together in a faux jungle scene.
It is the artist’s commitment to bringing together the unrelated that offers his paintings a dream-like unease and powerful unreliability.
