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Laura
BRENNAN

Born in Dublin, Laura Brennan is a visual artist now living in Galway. Primarily working in the medium of paint she holds a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art from GMIT, Galway and a degree in Architecture from DIT and Trinity College Dublin.
Her practice combines painting drawing and writing.

EXHIBITIONS

2010

The Flowers Gallery, London. Inishturkbeg Artist Residency Show

Couleurs d'Irlande, Artspace Group Show, Galerie du Faouedic - Lorient - France

2009

Ballina Arts Centre – two person show

nag gallery, Dublin. – Group show curated by Mark St.John Ellis.

Ard Bia Gallery, Galway. - Three person show.

Artspace Studios - Group exhibition.

2008

Solo exhibition at The Waterfront Gallery, Kilkenny. Invited by Kilkenny Arts Office.

Solo Exhibition. Tulca Festival of Visual Art, Galway. Curated by George Bolster.

Group exhibition of contemporary Irish painters with the Ashford Gallery, RHA entitled ‘The Plinian Sponge, maybe?’ Touring to the Johnston Library,Cavan. Ballina Arts Centre. Roscommon Arts Centre. GMIT, Cluain Mhuire, Galway and West Cork Arts Centre.

In Situ,Group Exhibition of Artspace Studio Artists as part Galway Arts Festival

2007

Selected for Claremorris Open Exhibition. September 2007.

Selected for RDS Student Art Award Exhibition

Selected for Graduate Exhibition at Glor Art Centre, Ennis.

RESIDENCIES

February 2009. SIM Artist Residency, Seljavegur, Reykjavik, Iceland.

September 2009. Inishturkbeg inaugral Artist Residency. Clew Bay, Mayo. One of seven selected international artists.

PUBLICATIONS

Catalogue essay entitled ‘On Painting’ for Ashford Gallery, RHA exhibition ‘The Plinian

Sponge, maybe?’.







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Laura Brennan’s work comprises a series of paintings which explore the human psychic relation to the natural world. They are also an attempt to discover what paint can do and use paint as the vehicle to manifest this subconscious connection, a journey into unknown territory consonant with what Bachelard refers to as intimate immensity, whereby immensity is a philosophical category of daydream, an escape from the here and now to the space of elsewhere. These paintings are not mimetic recordings but rather a distillation of sensorial experience. The role of accident or chance is a central aspect of the work – a process entailing consideration of a series of synchronistic paint events. Layers of marks and erasures evolving into metaphorical landscapes resonant with the memory of their origin.