15th – 26th July 2008

Opening Night: Tuesday 15 July 2008 at 6pm

'Here and Elsewhere' | Nicky Larkin & Cecilia Danell. Curated by Maeve Mulrennan

This exhibition brings together investigations into the idea of home, perceived utopias and the unheimlich inherent in modern living. In his video work ‘Pripyat’ Nicky Larkin invites the viewer to consider the now abandoned city of Pripyat in Chernobyl. Leading us through vacant buildings and public spaces, Larkin presents a city of memories, where hopes, ideals and aspirations of its population lay abandoned and forgotten. Traces of human activity are everywhere; an old swimming pool and a deteriorating fun fair speak of abandonment and loss.

Exhibiting alongside Nicky Larkin is recent graduate Cecilia Danell. In Danell’s paintings we are confronted again with an ideal that seems both familiar and unfamiliar. An anxiety to create a contemporary Utopia instead creates an uncanny space where its inhabitants are all longing to be elsewhere.

In Here and Elsewhere both the artists and the curator consider alienation, false nostalgia for things past and an anxiety that is inherent in modern living.

Here and Elsewhere runs from Tuesday 15th July to Saturday 26th July and is open from noon – 6pm each day, excluding Sunday. For more information please contact Maeve Mulrennan on maevemulrennan@gmail.com

Cecilia Danell graduated from GMIT in June 2008 with a first class honours in Painting. Originally from Sweden, Cecilia is currently living and working in Galway. She received joint first prize at the Claremorris Open in 2007. Nicky Larkin, also a graduate of GMIT and Chelsea School of Art and Design is currently living and working in Co. Offaly. Maeve Mulrennan is the curator for Galway Arts Centre and is currently pursuing an MA in Visual Arts Practices in IADT Dun Laoghaire.