New exhibition at Lough Boora set to be launched
The official launch of Sculptures by Julian Wild and Alan Counihan will take place in Lough Boora Parklands next Friday September 18 at 6pm.
This is the culmination of the most recent Artist in Residence programme at the parklands.
" We have another exciting artist in residence programme at Sculpture in the Parklands this year," said artistic director Kevin O'Dwyer.
"Julian Wild will be creating a playful piece that looks like a serpentine form swimming across the surface of the canal. Alan Counihan's sculpture entitled "Passage" will involve cutting a trench into an exisiting raised bank of turf to create a passageway. The passage will be lined with sleepers from the railways which are still used to transport milled peat from bog to depot. The passage will lead towards a freestanding vertical element composed of rails and sleepers which reach towards the sky."
Over the last two years Julian has gleaned pieces of metal scrap from the Bord na Mona workshops in Lough Boora. He sees the process as a kind of archaeology in which each old cog and piece of metal tells part of the story of the sites' rich industrial heritage.
Welding these scrap pieces of peat wagons and cutting machinery together, the artist will construct an 18 metre long sculpture in a canal at the site. The concept is to create a disk that appears to bounce over the surface of the canal, like a skimming stone.
Alan's work at Sculpture in the Parklands will continue to explore man's relationship with his landscape. Alan states: "From the outset I have wanted to create a work which would bring those who engage with it down into the bogland landscape so that one might experience a sense of its dark matter and the remains if not the memory of the bright surface life it contains and preserves. I wished to explore beneath the great flatness of Boora bog so that the experience of engagement with the work might also feel like an engagement with time, the past and the processes of material decay."
The launch will be followed by a reception at Teach Lea Community Centre Boora.
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