Dr Brian Fay and Susan Connolly, Artists In Conversation: Encounters with Jellett at the National Gallery of Ireland.
On Thursday 15 May at 18.30 The National Gallery of Ireland is hosting a special in-conversation event with Susan Connolly and Brian Fay, who will discuss the direct influence Jellett has had on our artistic careers to date with our Curator of Irish Art Post 1900, Sarah McAuliffe.
The National Gallery of Ireland has series of events running alongside their summer exhibition, ‘Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship’ which give us the opportunity to delve deeper into the themes of the exhibition, and look at how the pioneering work of Jellett and Hone continues to inspire and delight today.
Susan Connolly’s recent exhibition, GROUND (100+one) considered what one hundred plus one years of abstraction on the island of Ireland could mean for Irish painting today. Taking Mainie Jellett’s celebrated painting, Decoration (1923) as the work that first introduced an Irish audience to abstraction, she set herself the task of making 100 paintings on canvas as an homage, but more importantly, as a way to tease out and make visible questions that have intrigued her own established abstract painting practice.
Dr Brian Fay’s 2021 exhibition A Mobile Living Thing formed a response to four small paintings by Mainie Jellett. These works on paper, made between 1932 and 1939, mark a shift in her practice, moving from abstraction to a more naturalistic form of painting. Fay made a series of new drawings that responded to the physical properties of these works as they slowly age, and to the life of Jellett herself.
🎟️Find out more about this event and book your ticket at the link:
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/whats-on/artists-conversation-encounters-jellett
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship is kindly supported by The Klesch Collection, Lead Sponsor; Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, and the Art of Friendship Giving Circle. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media for their ongoing support.
