The Human Race

Kevin Kavanagh, Chancery Lane, Dublin Tues-Fri 10.30am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm Until Feb 11 01-4759514

Dublin-born Sonia Shiel is an artist of considerable energy and scope, and her initial exhibitions revealed her as a painter with a questing mind and a felicitous touch. She has aimed not only to refine and develop her impressive technical ability within the terms of painting per se, but to expand the conceptual framework of her projects so that they are large-scale composite installations incorporating a diversity of materials and techniques, including painting. Hence Shiel’s lively, vigorous use of sculpture, video and found objects in playful, sometimes kinetic pieces that both entertain and challenge.

In the generous space of the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Shiel aims to offer a satiric sideswipe at “the Human Race” as a race, a contest, “of wins, losses and enterprise”, all within the setting of a pastoral landscape.

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