Donna McNamara 'The very heart of the matter'

''Love Loss'

 

18th May – 8th June

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery
4 Robert St
Limerick

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery would like to invite you to the opening of 'The very heart of the matter' an exhibition of mixed media works by Donna McNamara. Coílín Murray will open the exhibition on Friday 18th May at 8pm and all are welcome.
Donna currently lives and works as a practicing artist in Cork. She holds an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from Limerick School of Art and Design. At present she teaches printmaking at Dungarvan Technical College, Waterford and teaches art at The Youth Reach Programme, Bandon, Co. Cork. She is a former Studio Director of The Backwater Artists Group in Cork where she is still an active member. Painting and printmaking (monoprint) are methods, which are both incorporated into Donna's work. Her large-scale mixed media works on paper all contain bold vibrant colours, rich reds, yellow ochre's, pinks and blues.

ARTIST STATEMENT
In this new body of work 'The very heart of the matter', I continue to make works that are a physical / poetic equivalent of extreme emotions.....Emotions that arise and surprise us with their intensity.....The works are "aftermath" an aftermath of a dialoguethat is a physical process,,,,,
My work has always been arrived at by assuming an emotional range. And a range of physical possibilities.....I force the Physical and the Emotional to mix and engage in anExchange… " A dialog of Making” in Mixed Media…..This battling back and forth, from state of emotional being to manipulation of appropriate media, is the procedure that allows me to bring such intimate personal experiences from a private to a public place. "The feeling of your heart not being in your body is dire….The feeling of your heart leaping in your body is Unequalled".

Donna has had several solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and around the world that include, Death and Desire in 2007, Sirus Art Gallery, Cobh, Co.Cork and Impressions, Galway Arts Centre in 2006. She has had several exhibitions through Cork Printmakers where she is a member and has exhibited at Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery during their annual Open Submission print show. She has also exhibited at Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork, C2 in 2005 and at the Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford in 2004; Hangzhou,China in 2005; The Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick in 2003 and the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick in 2001.

In 2006 she was first prize award winner of Impressions, which is the largest print exhibition in Ireland. She has also been awarded arts flights by the Arts Council of Ireland in the past and has taken part in exchanges to Spain and Holland during her time at college. Her work is in collections at The National University of Ireland, Previous President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, John Hunt, Hunt Museum Limerick, RTE Cork, RTE Dublin, OPW, UCC, The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, AIB Bank and the Bank of New York.

For further information on this exhibition, please contact Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery at the details below. The gallery is open Monday to Friday 11am
to 5.30pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm. All are welcome and admission is free.

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery
4 Robert St
Limerick
061 311806
limerickprintmakers@gmail.com
www.limerickprintmakers.com