Opening: Thursday 5th December 2024, 6.30pm
Venue: Waterford Gallery of Art, 31-32 O’Connell St, Waterford
Exhibition dates: 5 December 2024 – 5 April 2025
General opening times: Wednesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm
GROUND [two- unfold] is the first iteration of Susan Connolly’s exhibition GROUND (100+one), originally commissioned by the F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council. GROUND (100+one) saw Connolly consider what one hundred plus one years of abstraction on the island of Ireland could mean for Irish painting today. Taking Mainie Jellett’s now celebrated painting, Decoration (1923), as the work that first introduced an Irish audience to abstraction, Connolly set herself the task of making 100 paintings on canvas as a homage to the artist. More importantly, this project allowed Connolly to tease out and make visible, questions that have intrigued her own established abstract painting practice.
