Liminal Entities – fresh take on the everyday
Liminal Entities is the title of a new group exhibition from artists Hazel Egan, Nicola Gunwhy and Olivia Normile that’s currently running at the city’s Galway Arts Centre.
Their aim is to challenge what people might regard as the banality of the everyday and to change our view about what’s beyond sight.
This show uses prints, installations, sound and moving images to explores the quiet tensions of the so-called everyday.
Hazel Egan mostly uses drawing, printmaking, and installation as she explores concerns of space and existence.
She has a first-class bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Printmaking and Contemporary Practice from the Limerick School of Art and Design (2014). She’s a member of Dublin’s Black Church Print Studios, Artlinks in Donegal, and an associate member of the artist-led Ormond Studios in Dublin. Hazel’s work has been exhibited at home and abroad.
Nicola Gunwhy’s work is primarily focused on the body and identity, exploring the political implications of illness and vulnerability. She draws on the historic and social construction of medical diagnoses; the ownership of medical information; body autonomy and people’s access to care.
Nicola has an MA in Creative Practice and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and her work, which crosses disciplines, is based on personal and professional experiences of illness and
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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