Fiona Kerbey, Christopher McMullan, Joanne Reid, Katherine Sankey, and Emily Waszak • Curated by Brenda McParland

Join us in the gallery for the opening of Thresholds to the Unseen and hear the exhibiting artists reflect on their experiences of engagement with materials and form, and how this influences their individual artistic practices.

Thresholds to the Unseen is a group exhibition featuring sculptural works by five inspiring Irish based artists – Fiona Kerbey, Christopher McMullan, Joanne Reid, Katherine Sankey and Emily Waszak.  Showcasing new and recent sculpture, sculptural assemblages, and installation works, most of the works will be exhibited at Solstice Arts Centre for the first time. Each of the artists are emerging and mid-career in their artistic practice, having all exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, and some internationally.

Works in the exhibition converge and interconnect as the artists speculate and explore themes such as landscape and memory, still life, mourning, loss and ritual, thresholds to the unseen, otherworldliness, cultural heritage, perceptions of situation, the passing and capturing of time, archives, environmental issues, radical ecologies such as rewilding, cultivation and carbon sequestration.  Among the materials used are those from the built environment such as building sites and streets, industrial waste products, found and salvaged objects, domestic units and agricultural implements, textiles, as well as natural matter from the Irish landscape such as field clay, wild clay, seaweed, twigs, branches, bee detritus and distilled aromas.  The title of the exhibition is inspired by Emily Waszak’s installation We Speak Through Worlds which she describes as a Threshold to the Unseen.