Mo Roantree | Not About Any One Thing
Opening Reception: Thursday 29th June, 7 – 9pm
“Not about any one thing” is an exhibition where Mo Roantree explores how she can reconcile her fears for the planet and her work as an artist. She addresses concerns about the despoilment and scarring of the Landscape and questions about the human condition. She is guided by Carl Jung’s quote “All energy can only proceed from the tensions of opposites.” Through her work she explores how Forms emerging through chaos interact, how neighbourly or unsettled they become.
How these disparate forms and tensions become reconciled or not. Her work is based on her immediate surroundings living on an organic smallholding on the Galway Mayo borders. She arrives at images through play and experimentation allowing the material to speak, sometimes leaving her pieces outside for weathering and chewing by snails. The effects of wear and tear are important. Her work is made with recycled paper, old envelopes, rice paper, leaves, canvas. Guache, tempera, inks, emulsion.
These landscapes of the imagination are redolent of her memories and her experiences. A feeling connected by a tenuous memory might be rediscovered through reconciling each individual image with its Title. They may be surreal and abstract; the title shifts them into the real world.