Coloured into Shape is an exhibition of new paintings by visual artist Orla Whelan. The exhibition title is taken from a text by Rana Howell written in response to Whelan’s solo exhibition at Custom House Gallery in Westport, earlier this year. Howell’s poem ‘An Earthshine’ equates the artist’s relationship with reality to the perception of colour in nature, reflecting on nocturnal anxiety and the beguiling effect of moonlight, in which ‘the world is less insistently reformed, coloured into shape, but not as we remember it.’

Coloured into Shape is an exhibition of new paintings by visual artist Orla Whelan. The exhibition title is taken from a text by Rana Howell written in response to Whelan’s solo exhibition at Custom House Gallery in Westport, earlier this year. Howell’s poem ‘An Earthshine’ equates the artist’s relationship with reality to the perception of colour in nature, reflecting on nocturnal anxiety and the beguiling effect of moonlight, in which ‘the world is less insistently reformed, coloured into shape, but not as we remember it.’

Building on Coloured by Weather at Custom House Gallery, this exhibition presents additional large paintings from the Earthshine series. Coloured into Shape also includes small paintings from the artist’s Moon, Valley, Dew, Death series, and copies of the text ‘An Earthshine’ by Rana Howell.