The title of the exhibition curated by Mary Conlon refers to an experiment conducted on the moon in 1971 to demonstrate Galileo’s counter intuitive assertion that without air resistance all objects fall at the same speed. But the words hammer and feather also suggests sets of oppositions beyond light and heavy, such as light and dark, natural and manufactured or organic and mineral, which might also be invalidated by physical laws, gravitational or otherwise. Variations around titles and artworks is a recurring theme of the… Read More »
REVIEW: The Woods
The Woods is set in the off-site Limerick City Gallery of Istabraq Hall. The show features work from The National Collection of Contemporary Drawing. In conjunction with the exhibition, Curator Mary Conlon, has asked three artists from the Creative Limerick scheme to also participate. The press release explains: “A year after the launch of the initiative, Creative Limerick also promotes the creative potential in the city, having developed an exemplary model in negotiating the use of slack spaces for use in artistic and cultural activities…. Read More »