Christian Dupont uncovers Belfast artist Eva McKee’s vision for achieving aesthetic resonance through Celtic patterns and Art Nouveau styling
When Eva Kathleen McKee was born in Belfast in 1890, Harland & Wolff was turning out to sea a dozen new cargo and passenger ships a year. Meanwhile, London-born Alice Hart was travelling to rural Donegal to revitalise and organise its traditional cottage industries, setting up ‘Kells embroidery schools’, which garnered prizes at industrial exhibitions.
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Born in Galway in 1955, now Dublin and Berlin based, Cecily Brennan has been exhibiting since the late 1970s and making art about pain for decades. Her exhibition, ‘Pressure’, at the Glucksman Gallery, pulls together several major works from the last twenty-five years, taking a laws-of-physics-style view of the theme: pain as a form of energy or force, and – in what feels like a neat nod to Newton’s third law of motion, pairing actions with equal and opposite reactions – pressure as a form of pain. It’s a theme rich in potential interpretations and one that has long been present in Brennan’s practice.
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