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SUMMARY:Blue Skies\, Black Earth | Deirdre Frost at GOMA Waterford
DESCRIPTION:Blue Skies\, Black Earth: A solo exhibition by Deirdre Frost at
  GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford | Running from 30 August – 27 Sept
 ember 2025\n\nOfficial launch: Saturday 30 August 4–6pm at GOMA Waterfor
 d. All are welcome!\n\nThe Earth\, locus of growth and renewal\, is the in
 spiration behind this new body of oil paintings on canvas and on wood by D
 eirdre Frost.\n\nThe works consider rootedness and displacement\, alongsid
 e the innate instinct in all living things to grow\, to thrive\, to flouri
 sh\, to reach upward. The paintings attempt to capture the experience of l
 iving in this world – a fragmented\, complicated place of growth and col
 lapse\, influenced by a multitude of opaque and complex human agendas. Bui
 ldings\, split open under construction or under dereliction\, reverberate 
 of our time of great need for safe homes globally. A space to thrive\; a w
 orld where the plants and soil itself is under pressure due to excess huma
 n activity.\n\nVignettes depict scenes of captured beauty and simplicity\,
  much like an endeavour to simplify and structure our lives and desires\, 
 while the box like structures that contain these snapshots split and crack
 . Oil painting on canvas rooted on the floor draws the viewer in to its da
 rk vortex as prickly plants reach from the depths\, a visceral reminder of
  what is beneath our feet. Sea thrift drifting through a triptych give a s
 ense a floating free\, uprooted\, adrift and floating like seeds through t
 he air while soft bog cotton blows above collapsed slabs on a shore.\n\nIn
  line with works such as Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital\, which present
 s our blue world spinning serenely through black space as we live out our 
 small and larger dramas\, this body of work flips our perspective. Created
  from the ground\, and drawing on local imagery of the natural and built e
 nvironments\, these paintings unfold against the constant bombardment and 
 diversion of news and social media. Within them are traces of global fract
 uring and collapse\, through which plants continue to reach toward the air
 .\n\nDeirdre Frost is a Cork-based visual artist\, working from Backwater 
 Artist Studios\, and is represented by Kevin Kavanagh\, Dublin.\n\nHer sol
 o exhibitions include Tumbling Earth (2025) at Kevin Kavanagh\, Dublin\; B
 ig Crush (2023) at Kilkenny Arts Festival\; In Habitat\, In Transition (20
 21) at Studio 12\, Backwater Artists Group\, and St Luke’s Crypt\, Sampl
 e Studios\; Claochló (2021) at Joan Clancy Gallery\, Waterford\; and Biop
 hilia (2021)\, part of the Lavit Gallery Student of the Year Exhibition\, 
 Cork.
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LOCATION:GOMA Waterford\, 6 Lombard Street\, Waterford City\, Waterford\, X
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