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This exhibition by Paddy McCann presents a major new body of work developed over the past two years and marks the beginning of a new direction in the artist’s practice, exploring new ideas in gesture and scale and methods of working with the medium of paint.
These works inextricably link a private world of the past with an observed contemporary social and political landscape. Poetic, absorbing and ambiguous, they offer up a space for contemplation in amongst our increasingly distracting and erratic surroundings.
“In this work I am trying to generate a charge in some way, to create an emotional presence that may not be easily understood, but that might jolt a viewer into thinking about certain things - whether they are wholly intimate and personal feelings, or something broader, relating to the constantly shifting society around us.” (Paddy McCann 2015)
