Jackie Askew is based in Liscannor, Co Clare and has exhibited regularly over the past twenty years, with solo exhibitions at The Mermaid Arts Centre, Dunamaise Arts Centre, The Riverbank Arts Centre and County Hall, Kilkenny. She has also been selected for a number of group exhibitions in Ireland and England. She recently won the Millcove Gallery Award and has been selected to participate in a residency in Iceland later this year.

This exhibition consists of a series of drawings, paintings and photography, depicting the artists’s interest in the exploration of her geographical place, living on the westernmost edge of Europe. She makes art that engages with her immediate environment of the beach, and with the found objects washed up on it. She uses as source material objects that have been worn and eroded by the sea. Through photographic documentation and then the process of drawing and painting, she explores both the strength and fragility of these objects and engages with the materiality of what has been displaced and given by the sea. The resultant works are small in scale and work together as constellations rather than separately, shifting with ease between the abstract and the representational.

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