Beatrice O’Connell: Overwintering on the Moon

Thursday 1 February – Saturday 17 February 2024
Large Colony Collapses, screenprint, acrylic ink and oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm | Beatrice O’Connell: Overwintering on the Moon | Thursday 1 February – Saturday 17 February 2024 | Taylor Galleries | Image: Large Colony Collapses, screenprint, acrylic ink and oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm | what appears to be a black-and-white photograph of a swarm of bees at a hive, viewed from above, is screenprinted four times onto the canvas left to right as a top row, then another black-and-white photo of bees is printed four times below, exceept this time the bottom 40% of each image appears to have a translucent layer of white paint over it, with drips of black ink running down; there are also patches of translucent cyan, top and bottom

Beatrice O’Connell presents new mixed media paintings at her first solo exhibition at Taylor Galleries. Her work examines bionomic behaviour and interconnectivity in the face of climate crisis, inspired by research on diverse perspectives within ecological storytelling, poetry and literature. The mixed media works include monochrome images of bees, and the repetition of the imagery resonates with a cycle of repeated behaviours. The imagery from a personal archive of photography and heirlooms, finds a common resonance between the surfaces of manmade objects and the patination found in nature. The paintings record a sense of Biophilia, a word coined by Harvard ecologist Edward O. Wilson, he explains it as ‘our innate tendency to focus upon life and life-like forms and, in some instances, to affiliate with them emotionally’.

Image: Large Colony Collapses, screenprint, acrylic ink and oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
Thursday 1 February – Saturday 17 February 2024
Taylor Galleries
16 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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