Mairead O'hEocha: Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes

28 Feb-25 Apr 2020

Overview

Mairead O’hEocha is exhibiting new paintings and ink on paper drawings that concentrate on the subject of animals and their presentation within museum dioramas. Taking inspiration from Dublin’s Natural History Museum (or Dead Zoo), O’hEocha uses this ‘trophy cabinet’ from Ireland’s colonial past to register historic and contemporary attitudes of display. O’hEocha’s selective compositional approach to painting reflects the meticulous arrangements of taxidermied animals in constructed artificial environments, and her ongoing engagement with representation and image-making draws to light important concerns about these accepted forms of presentation.