Ronan Bowes is spending the month with CCA’s Project Space, creating new work. He is considering the principles of Polyvagal Theory in response to Yasmine Robinson’s exhibition Glimmers and her exploration of colour, light, hope and resilience.

Central to Ronan’s practice is a cyclical rhythm of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. He views the act of tearing down and rebuilding not as destruction, but as a cathartic necessity. This aims to mirror the fluidity of the human nervous system-moving through states of tension (mobilisation) and release (social engagement). During his time in the project, he will physically break apart his drawings and paintings, reassembling them into complex, layered structures that move onto and off the wall and into the physical volume of the project space.

Ronan Bowes (born 1986) is a contemporary painter based in Omagh, Northern Ireland, whose work explores themes of identity, memory and auto-biographical elements whilst intersecting with art history and current issues in a contemporary art through an experimental and cyclical use of drawing, collage, painting, sculpture and installation.
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Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Garfield Weston Foundation.