Deirdre Hayden, Beth O'Halloran, Monica Flynn, Isabel Young, Todd Kelly and Emer Roberts will exhibit as part of 'Our Shared Existence' in the Ard Bia Gallery from Saturday 15 December until Saturday 19 January.

Emer Roberts recreates 3D hybrid creatures that are mostly animal but with a pronounced human aspect. Likewise, the human dominated animal world is explored in Isabel Young's paintings. Young's work is generated through close observations of wildlife, often in zoological environments, and of elaborate purpose built 'sets' constructed in the studio using collected objects, artefacts and fabrics, as well as organic material, fruit, vegetation and animals, such as fish and octopus.

Using sound, video and installation, Monica Flynn in 'Fairy Field' explores what it means to be immersed in a landscape as opposed to being a distant observer and how belief, superstition and local narratives are all intrinsic to a connection with place and the natural and perhaps supernatural worlds.

It is a kind of idealised picturesque landscapes that Todd Kelly references in his elaborate collages and which framed in graffiti like 'asterisk' markings raise questions about the universal human drive to mark or claim space.

The source material for Beth O'Halloran's most recent paintings are a series of photographs of ice-fishing huts based in the rural North-Eastern US coast. These are places, which hint at a contingency of experience from the vantage point of the recluse like an unseen fisherman, his hut the only human presence in a bleached scene of nature at its quietest.

Also in the medium of paint, Deirdre Hayden creates small portraits of the inner world as projected onto the landscape. Her evocative paintings suggest moments in time before or after an encounter or realisation, a backdrop to unfolding dramatisation of the subconscious mind, creating a collective space that is intimately personal.

For further information, phone the gallery on 091-516630.

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