{"id":16340,"date":"2025-03-13T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=16340"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:25:19","slug":"land-mark-comhartha-talun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/land-mark-comhartha-talun\/","title":{"rendered":"Land-mark: Comhartha tal\u00fan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blue Water<\/em> by D\u00e9irdre Kelly
2″x2″; collage & mixed media on canvas; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land-mark: Comhartha tal\u00fan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at The Ballinglen Gallery in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
21 February\u201317 March 2025 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

D\u00e9irdre Kelly and Kaitlin Zorah McDonough come together in “Land-mark”, a presentation of the multifaceted ways that place anchors and informs their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artists first met in Venice, Italy, a place whose unique urban construct and vibratory qualities expand and shape one\u2019s perceptions. The pulse of Venice is quite different from the raw natural energy and unmitigated magnetism found in the West of Ireland, specifically at Ballinglen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u00e9irdre Kelly (image above) focuses on the language of mapping the aesthetics of cartography recognizing the intrinsic beauty of the physical map made up of familiar signs, symbols and colors. The mechanisms and language key to reading maps, provide a kind of \u2018grounding\u2019, a \u2018grip\u2019 on the world, a fundamental connection with time and place. Kelly continues to focus on the map of Ireland, in particular, relationships and experience of the distinctive details of the North Mayo Atlantic coastline. Their experiences of this magical location crystalized into the works on show, marking a coming together and a return: to place, to shared identity, to past and future connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of Angels III, for Ballinglen <\/em>by Kaitlin Zorah McDonough
13″x14″; oil, acrylic, beads, collage on cardboard on panel; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Relationality is a key modality of McDonough\u2019s painting. She seeks to make the etheric material through resonant color and rhythm. For the Ballinglen works, she was moved by the primal directness of the land, ocean, animals, and sky. And by the extraordinary mist and air of Sea-Angels. For McDonough, the paintings become distinct places unto themselves: mobile access points to the harmonics of the earth-place from which they came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ballinglen Gallery at<\/em> Ballinglen Arts Foundation<\/strong>
Main Street
Ballycastle, County Mayo F26 X5N3, Ireland
+353 96 43184<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Monday-Friday, 12PM-5PM
Weekends, by appointment only<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Land-mark: Comhartha tal\u00fan at The Ballinglen Gallery in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland21 February\u201317 March 2025  D\u00e9irdre Kelly and Kaitlin Zorah McDonough come together in “Land-mark”, a presentation of the multifaceted ways that place anchors and informs their work.…<\/p>\n

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