Artist Talks | Soft Surge Artists and Curator in Conversation at the Luan Gallery

Event Details

Join us at Luan Gallery on Saturday 6th September at 2pm for the Soft Surge Artists and Curator talk

This roving in-conversation event, led by Luan Gallery curator Aoife Banks in dialogue with Soft Surge exhibiting artists Shirani Bolle, Ursula Burke, Rachel Fallon, and Lucy Peters, will guide visitors through exhibited artwork. Together, the curator and artists will address and unravel the themes encountered in the exhibition. As we move through the gallery, the discussion will critically engage with the conceptual frameworks and thematic concerns underpinning the works, offering insight into the curatorial rationale and the artistic practices of the exhibiting artists.

SOFT SURGE is a group exhibition featuring artists Shirani Bolle, Ursula Burke, Rachel Fallon, Dee Mulrooney, Lucy Peters, Emily Waszak, and selected work on loan from The Irish Names Project. Soft Surge critically engages with themes of identity, motherhood, women’s collectivity, grief, resistance, activism, and sociopolitical dissent within the context of contemporary Ireland. Through a range of practices and processes including sculpture, embroidery, weaving, knitting, tapestry, film, photography, and mixed media, the artists featured in this exhibition explore the soft power and radical potential of textiles.

Curated by Aoife Banks