Exhibition
Olga Geoghegan, Out Of Place
16 Mar 2018 – 31 Mar 2018
Event times
Monday Closed
Tuesday 10am–4pm
Wednesday 10am–4pm
Thursday 10am–4pm
Friday 10am–4pm
Saturday 10am–5:30pm
Sunday Closed
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 116 Ashley Road
- Hale
- Altrincham
England - WA14 2UN
- United Kingdom
Geoghegan's work depicts mainly figures, static and stoical. Sometimes alone, sometimes in small groupings, they seem strangely disconnected from their surroundings and each other
About
Olga Geoghegan‘s first solo exhibition in the north west opens at Gateway Gallery in Hale in March. Running from Friday 16-Saturday 31 March 2018, it showcases thirty six oils on canvas, painted between 2005 and 2017.
The painter was born Olga Yukhtina in the sub-arctic industrial town of Ukhta in Russia's far north in 1965. Talent-spotted as a child, Geoghegan progressed to the prestigious Leningrad Academy of Arts, in an era when the Cold War showed no sign of resolution, and when there were thousands of applicants for each of the handful of places available.
On leaving the academy in 1989, the USSR was on the cusp of great change. With the communist regimes overthrown in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania, the USSR was soon to be dissolved.
In the early 90s, soon after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, she was one of the first Russian painters to be invited to exhibit in Western Europe with successful exhibitions taking place in London and Vienna.
Geoghegan's work depicts mainly figures, static and stoical. Sometimes alone, sometimes in small groupings, they seem strangely disconnected from their surroundings and each other. With little discernible landscape to anchor them to a context, her protagonists are free floating and completely exposed.
Much of her work is influenced by the hardships of her family’s life in Soviet Russia.