Borderline
An Exhibition of Work by Sean Cotter at the Riverbank Arts Centre,
Newbridge
Borderline, an exhibition of paintings and charcoal drawings by
Sean Cotter will be officially opened at the Riverbank Arts Centre
in Newbridge on Sunday 12th of January at 3.00 pm.
Born in Monasterevin, County Kildare, Sean Cotter studied at the
National College of Art & Design (Dublin), graduating in 1991
with an honours degree in fine art painting. Cotter then relocated
to Galway in the west of Ireland, where the bleak and romantic landscape
became a strong influence on his earlier work. In 1994 he joined
Artspace Studios, becoming a director the following year. He has
recently moved back to his native Kildare.
Cotter’s work has featured in many exhibitions, including
both solo and group exhibitions. Corvidophilia at the Hallward Gallery
in Dublin was the most recent solo exhibition of his work, but he
has also mounted solo shows at the Galway Arts Centre, the Linenhall
Arts Centre (Castlebar), and St John’s Arts Centre (Listowel).
His paintings have been included in many group exhibitions in France
and Germany, as well as throughout Ireland.
The works featured in this exhibition are concerned with borders
and horizons, and the visual zone that separates the two. This is
a body of new work produced over the last twelve months which intrigue
and bewitch the viewer. In these works, “Cotter explores notions
of interface, of separation and interaction, the horizon line acting
as that crucial border between the elements of earth, sea and sky
– the below and the above. Impose a horizontal line on a canvas
and it immediately takes on a sense of horizon and thus of landscape.
Cotter uses this strong, yet open-ended suggestion as the vehicle
for these paintings, creating landscapes that are not so much referential
as the structure in which to work his materials.” (Ian Wieczorek)
The exhibitions continues until Friday 31st of January and is accompanied
by a catalogue. Official Opening: Sunday 12th January 2003
Gallery opening hours are
Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm,
and 2 pm – 5pm.
For further information, please contact Catríona
Fallon on 045 448315.
Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare
e-mail artscentre@riverbank.ie
