Image: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
‘Cnuasach’ is curated by Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh PRHA.
The exhibition presents four recurring themes: landscape, portraiture, grids and abstraction. Distinct in their histories and visual languages, these subjects provide a framework through which the artists explore questions of perception, structure, space, memory and approaches to image-making.
Landscape appears as a site of observation, recollection and transformation, while portraiture offers a means of considering identity, presence and our relationship to place. The grid introduces ideas of order, repetition and systems, but can equally become a point of tension or disruption. Abstract practices move beyond direct representation, inviting viewers to engage with colour, gesture, surface and form on their own terms.
Featuring eleven Members of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts alongside ten invited artists, the exhibition creates a space for exchange and discovery across generations, practices and perspectives. Moving from recognisable imagery towards more open-ended forms of expression, the exhibition considers how established artistic languages continue to be questioned, reworked and extended through contemporary practice.
