Opening Reception Tuesday 17 June

Meath County Council Arts Office are delighted to present View by Meath Artist Siobhan Fitzpatrick in the Toradh Gallery this June.

Siobhan Fitzpatrick is a painter, who lives and works in Co Meath. This body of work was developed with funding from Meath County Council Arts Office’s Professional Artists Development Fund.

View references a genre of topographical landscape painting popular in the latter half of the 18^th century, which documented the landed estates, vantage point views, towns and popular historical sites of the time. These paintings depicted the Irish landscape at a time when the establishment of a categorization for aesthetic taste and appreciation of the landscape literally resulted in a pictorialization of nature and the re plantation of many country estates to create an aspect or view that reflected the sublime and uncultivated.

This body of work also records a period of extensive alteration in the town/ruralscape. The Celtic tiger brought about expansive and at times contentious development throughout the country. In referencing the 18^th century notion of the aspect , view or perspective this series of paintings seek to form a visual document which records the altered view of the past 10-15 years within the framework of a recognisable landscape genre.