PANORAMA

An Exhibition of 3 Contemporary Irish Artists – Aisling Conroy, Claire Halpin and Mark Redden at Uxval Gochez Gallery and Project Space in Barcelona in March 2025.

The exhibition will present a curated installation of newly created artworks from each of the three exhibiting artists comprising painting, sculpture, sound and film responding to the space and context of the gallery. Panorama, as title and concept of the show, as a human-made all-encompassing view. An artificially constructed scene that is so immersive as to completely captivate the viewer. It is something that could at one time offer serene views and a chance to calm the mind, or it could perturb with turbulent images of conflict and destruction. Either way, the scene is set to create a reaction, response or a reconsideration.

In this vein, the practices of the three Irish artists; Conroy, Halpin and Redden offer different ways of working with similar global concerns. Their work shares holistic and compassionate responses to some of the world’s ongoing dilemmas: war, spiritual imbalance, environmental disaster. In their work these artists propose an alternate perspective - alternative histories, viewpoints, directions and narratives. From the chaos of everyday life, to the global storm we are experiencing, we are taken from the moment and reminded of something else that lies in the painted, the instinctive mark, gestural and primal, the worked surface.

That in the smallest detail one can find the greatest answers, that what is overlooked is often what you were seeking. The exhibition, Panorama, is the coming together of the work of artists who work in the realms of the collective consciousness, who seek a holistic connection with the world and create artworks that seek to steer a course through unsettling times. That we might pause to consider and reflect on the whole body and the cells that constitute it, we might think of our part in the whole.