VISUAL Carlow have launched their new exhibitions for the Autumn/Winter

Over the weekend, VISUAL Carlow launched their new exhibitions for the Autumn/Winter 2023 season.

The solo exhibitions showcase new work by artists Sonia Shiel, Caroline Achaintre and Maeve Brennan.

As you enter the Visual Centre of Contemporary Art, you will step into the Lobby Gallery where you will be confronted with animals, humans, plants and microbes creating weird creatures in strange landscapes. This space has been inspired by Caroline Achaintre’s masks and tapestries, and Sonia Shiel’s kaleidoscopic paintings, to imagine how animal or plant adaptations could change how you move through the world.

Maeve Brennan’s 'An Excavation' is part of a larger ongoing body of work entitled 'The Goods'. This work examines the life of objects and artefacts, and how value, ownership, categorisation, and temporality all effect our reading of them. Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her practice explores the historical and political resonance of material and place. She works with many techniques to reveal the unseen or hidden structures that determine our lived environment.

An exhibition of new and existing work by Caroline Achaintre, entitled 'Her Hare' is also on display in the Visual. Achaintre works in a variety of media, including metalwork, ceramics, textiles, and drawing. 'Her Hare' consists of ceramic work in the Studio Gallery, and two large tapestry works in the Link Gallery.

In Sonia Shiel’s exhibition, 'Medusa in Pieces', landscape appears to possess multi-dimensional capacity. These landscape works also feature sounds such as recordings of birds, human voice, and wind.

The new exhibits raise questions about how we imagine and shape the world, beings and objects around us using painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, performance and film.

The Autumn/Winter Exhibitions run until 14th January 2024 at the VISUAL Centre of Contemporary Art, Carlow.

To find out more about the exhibitions click HERE