Villa I, 2024, oil on linen 50 x 65 cm

8th November 2024 – Exhibition

EXHIBITION: STILL by Eithne Jordan

STILL is the first solo exhibition at the gallery by well-known Irish painter Eithne Jordan. In Jordan’s most recent paintings, she invites us to look closely at the histories woven through the institutions, museums and other public buildings in our cities that include artworks as a backdrop to their everyday activities.

“Over the past few years I have been working on an ongoing series of paintings which examine museums and institutional buildings, looking at the way art and artefacts are displayed, and how the context influences our experience of them. My paintings play with scale, interior spaces and the art objects displayed in these rooms. Although I generally leave out people in these paintings, my depictions of the paintings and sculptures displayed in these rooms could be seen as a way of introducing the human figure into the space. There are many layers distancing us from the humanity of the figure, however, layers of historical reference and interpretation. Often the portraits on the walls, the busts on plinths, the antique casts or copies are so familiar to us, that we barely look at them anymore, and they become part of the furniture. I treat them as props in a stage set, and the paintings the staging of an inanimate performance.”

Opening Night: Friday 8 November, 6pm

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Eithne Jordan was born in Dublin and attended the Dún Laoghaire School of Art (now IADT Dún Laoghaire) during the period 1972-76. In the artist’s most recent paintings, she invites us to look closely at the histories woven through the institutions, museums and other public buildings in our cities that include artworks as a backdrop to their everyday activities. Jordan has exhibited widely in Europe, most recently at Assab-One, Milan (with a contribution from Nathalie Du Pasquier). Recent Irish solo exhibitions include those at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Her work is in major public and private collections in Ireland, Europe and the United States.