Bernadette Kiely: High Now Low Brown Exhibition

From:March 3, 2012 14:00 to: March 31, 2012 17:00

Location: Ballina Arts Centre

Bernadette Kiely is one of Irelands leading painters. Born in Co. Tipperary she attended the
College of Art and Design at Waterford and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
She came to prominance as an artist through her detailed exploration of the seasonal and organic
life patterns of the physical world. Often working on a large scale she is informed by her close
connection to the land and waterways of her native county and her adopted county of Kilkenny.
She paints spaces and places, refuges and prospects that are both steeped in personal significance

for her and that explore the way we instinctively find significance in landscape.

'HIGH NOW LOW BROWN' is taken from a poem written by the artist in 1996, as a form of greeting to
the banks of the river Nore after an absence of a year spent overlooking the river Lee in Cork city.
This exhibition features large paintings and charcoal and water drawings on canvas based on her
ongoing exploration of an approximately 80ft stretch of the Nore and its banks as visible from the
quayside on which she lives.

Through her paintings she chronicles the passage of time and the daily patterns and seasonal
changes of the life of the river.

A fully-illustrated 24 page catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and her work is held in private and public collections in Ireland, UK, Europe and the USA. She has been the recipient of many awards, bursaries and fellowships and in 2007 was commissioned to make drawings and watercolours for

'Somewhere the Wave' a limited edition book of poems by the poet Derek Mahon.

She is a member of Aosdana and is represented by Taylor Galleries, Dublin.

Admission free. All welcome. Runs until 31^st March.

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