Exhibition: Thin Place
February 1 - February 23
Free
Thin Place by RJ Speers will be on show from Saturday 1st February to Sunday 23rd February.
A Thin place is a location where the veil between this world and the mystical otherworld appears permeable or thin. These are places where the boundary between our tangible world and the unseen world seem to touch. The peatlands and bogs which appear in Bob Spears paintings are very much thin places.
In the artist’s own words “My art is currently informed by habitual wanderings through different levels of moor and bog”. He uses a sample from each bog so that, in essence the bog named is to be found in the painting. Bob’s unique work not only includes material taken from bogs all across Ireland but he also incorporates commercial paints and discarded household fabrics. As someone commented at a former exhibition, “Bob Speers has a perspective on the land which is often overlooked”.
