Isabella Evangelisti views the work of Sri Lankan artist Anushiya Sundaralingam and finds in it hope and courage
To experience the work of Anushiya Sundaralingam is to embark on a journey with her, one that begins in Sri Lanka and washes up on the shores of Northern Ireland, by a complex and circuitous route that is often dark and dangerous, yet always thoughtful and reflective. It is her own personal journey and at the same time one that has been taken by millions of others in the course of human history. It is the story of displacement and exile, of the tearing up of familial roots in familiar places and of the effort required to reroot them in others not yet known.
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Christian Dupont uncovers Belfast artist Eva McKee’s vision for achieving aesthetic resonance through Celtic patterns and Art Nouveau styling
Christina Kennedy considers artist Fergus Feehily’s recent exhibition, ‘Fortune House’
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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