Curated by Margarita Cappock

A preoccupation with landscape and the built environment has been unfolding across Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s painting practice for over two decades. Central to this inquiry are enigmatic depictions of manmade structures, both ancient and modern, industrial and domestic.

For her solo exhibition at The LAB Gallery, Ní Mhaonaigh presents a new series of small-scale works that build on the learning of earlier paintings, while chronicling some interesting departures. In tracing a landscape in flux, these works can be loosely categorised into three groupings: canvas studies of organic structures, read as floral, mossy, or tree-like; linear and geometric forms, etched into smooth, silvery backgrounds; and a set of intricate works on board, incorporating vast asymmetrical arcs. Initially understood as the simple silhouettes of distant hills, these brooding forms become increasingly complex with further reading.