Whispers of rhythm balance on my hands
Eleanor McCaughey
Wed 12 Jun — Sat 28 Sep 2024
Ground Floor Gallery
Curated by Sharon Murphy
Whispers of rhythm balance on my hands is a solo show by Eleanor McCaughey, commissioned by Draíocht and curated by Sharon Murphy.
McCaughey works across painting, sculptural assemblage, mixed media, video and textiles. Her work is continually in flux, evolving through research, studio based experimentation and personal experiences of healing from endometriosis and infertility, out of which her conceptual concerns take form. McCaughey’s work has personal and hidden meanings that are bound up in learned, lost and altered theological ideologies and humanistic notions that the artist has been exposed to through time. Of interest in particular is the history and politics that surround the female body, the construction of female social identity and the representation of woman throughout art history.
McCaughey's work is physical, tactile, and handmade with an equal focus on its shifting materiality. Both her painting and sculpture for this exhibition reveal traces of the body, performance, and healing activity via brush stroke, mark making, and moulding. It is important to McCaughey that these qualities lend a symbolic dimension to the work, emitting a certain presence of the artist despite her absence. In turn it invites the viewer to inhabit the space and experience the work.
