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Repose by Michael Quane
The annual winter group show at Solomon Gallery in Dublin showcases a range of painting, sculpture and print by celebrated Irish artists. Among them are Michael Quane, Eilis O’Connell, Rowan Gillespie, Margo Banks, Corban Walker, Tom Climent, Comhghall Casey, Margaret Egan and Bernadette Madden. It continues until December 23.
Michael Quane – All Our Belongings
A joint exhibition by Michael Quane and Johanna Connor drawing on their respective media of stone and paper is at the Lavit Gallery until June 14. The exhibition title, Paper – Pencil – Chisel – Stone, draws from the tools used by the Coachford based artists. Connor’s drawings on paper, made as if looking through a magnifying lens, edit the visible and invisible to extract hidden magic from the mundane. Quane scrapes through the act of carving stone to produce a deliberate form with each mark serving a purpose to create a sense of immediacy and spontaneity.
Tourus Buoyancy is the title of this unique sculpture by Michael Quane. Made this year from Bordiglio marble it is from his much anticipated solo show “Belonging” at Solomon Gallery in Dublin until October 19. His work is immensely tactile not least because of his method of tooling the surface with a claw chisel which delivers a textured result. Tourus Buoyancy will look familiar to many people because numerous public sculptures by Michael Quane are to be found in various locations around Ireland. The Crawford graduate was elected a member of Aosdana in 1998, has been an RHA since 2004 and is one of Ireland’s most highly regarded contemporary sculptors.
