Runs 16th June – 23rd July 2022
Tuesday – Saturday | 10am – 4pm
Opening Launch: Wednesday 15th June 2022 at 7pm and online at 8:30pm on our Facebook page.
New work by Anna Marie Savage, Ciaran Dunbar and Greag Mac a’ tSaoir.
This exhibition brings together work by Greag Mac a’tSaoir and Anna Marie Savage both of whom grew up in the border town of Newry in the 1970s and 1980s and Ciaran Dunbar, born in Dundalk in 1982 to parents originally from the north of Ireland. Their practices span painting, photography, sculpture and installation.
It is against the backdrop of the border town of Dundalk, where he currently lives and works, that issues of identity, displacement and marginalisation have become the focus of Ciaran Dunbar’s work. ‘Diesel’ investigates the socioeconomic, political and environmental impact of diesel laundering along the Irish border. The work traces the illegal dumping of toxic waste material by diesel launderers at sites along the border between Counties Louth, Armagh and Down.
Greag Mac a’tSaoir and Anna Marie Savage both have a similar focus on the stretch of border that both separates and binds these counties. A stretch of land that is neither here nor there, neither one thing nor the other and it never really has been. The imposition of a political border one hundred years ago brought the two sides together in a symbiosis where each conspired to other its counterpart. A common thread that weaves through their work however is a probing of identity, ranging from the personal through to the cultural and political and both realise that this ever-present psychogeography is apparent in both of their practices and make work which expresses how the effect of a geographical location can affect the emotions and behaviour of the individual.
