Carousel | Mary Cullen-Kelly at the Dunamaise Arts Centre

Event Details

Exhibition continues from the 15th of August to the 20th of September 2025

The exhibition title references the TV series Mad Men; there the ‘carousel’ is a Kodak slide projector that in a sense moves the viewer forwards and backwards in time.

This series of paintings, prints and objects seek to describe a world that can feel familiar and strange all at the same time. Things are always changing. The artist draws on science fiction movies from the 50s and 60s. Colourful paintings of domestic and ‘small town’ settings draw us in with a whiff of nostalgia, a sense of the familiar which is subverted as things are not quite as expected. Photopolymer prints and made objects offer clues that the world we are in has been altered. Flora and other items have appeared nearby. Questions are posed but not answered. The world has changed and we are not quite sure where we are.