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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin;VALUE=DATE:20250809
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin;VALUE=DATE:20251027
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URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/exhibition-cities-of-the-world-kathy-p
 rendergast-chris-leach
SUMMARY:Cities of the World | Kathy Prendergast and Chris Leach at the Butl
 er Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Opening: Saturday 9th August\, 3.00 - 5.00pm. All We
 lcome.\n\nButler Gallery\, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival\, is
  delighted to present an exhibition exploring the theme of ‘Cities of th
 e World’ by two artists\, Kathy Prendergast and Chris Leach. The two hav
 e never met\, but are intrinsically linked by this subject matter which th
 ey realise in very different ways.\n\nKathy Prendergast\, an Irish London-
 based artist\, is represented by her suite of 113 City Drawings which were
  begun in 1992. Owned by IMMA\, they have not been exhibited in many years
 . Based on contemporary maps of the world’s capital cities\, Prendergast
  compresses each city\, large and small\, and follows her own sense of sca
 le to contain each city on the same size paper. Transcribing the network o
 f lines with understated pencil marks she conveys the pattern of routes th
 rough\, within and around each city\, imposing an unfathomable sense of de
 mocracy on the world. The skeletal images reduce even the largest and most
  powerful communities to a delicate network of lines that resemble organic
  patterns in nature.\n\nChris Leach\, a British Manchester-based artist\, 
 began his Capital Cities drawing project in 2012 and continued until 2022.
  He has completed 196 tiny drawings of every recognised capital city in th
 e world which together functions as one piece of work. Leach’s miniature
  drawings are solidly three-dimensional\, drawn with pencil\, scalpel and 
 burnishing tools on the gessoed face of an oak block. Leach is interested 
 in how scale can be used as a tool for both psychological and representati
 onal investigation.\n\nThe cities work by Kathy Prendergast and Chris Leac
 h is a fascinating juxtaposition and prompts wider discussions around geog
 raphy\, architecture and politics—what cities say about us and what they
  don’t.\n\nAdditionally\, a film programme ‘City as Character’ will 
 highlight iconic cities in both mainstream and art house cinema. Co-curate
 d by Butler Gallery and Out of Focus\, films will be shown in the Digital 
 Gallery and also in collaboration with the Watergate Theatre\, Kilkenny.\n
 \nAnna O’Sullivan\nDirector &amp\; Exhibition Curator\n\nLearning &amp\;
  Public Engagement Events:\n\nArtists Kathy Prendergast and Chris Leach in
  conversation with exhibition curator Anna O'Sullivan and Dr Yvonne Scott\
 , Tuesday 12th August 2025 at 12.00pm\, Parade Tower\, Kilkenny Castle. Fr
 ee ticketed event\, available to book on the Kilkenny Arts Festival websit
 e.\n\nDr Yvonne Scott is an Emeritus Fellow and former Associate Professor
  of History of Art at Trinity College Dublin.\nShe was awarded the RHA Gol
 d Medal for 2025 in recognition of her services to Irish art. She has rese
 arched and published extensively in modern and contemporary art\, includin
 g analysis of various aspects of the work of artist Kathy Prendergast. Her
  most recent book is Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art\,
  published by Churchill House Press in association with the Irish Museum o
 f Modern Art\, 2023.\n\nImage: (L) Kathy Prendergast\, Mexico City from 
 ‘City Drawings’\, 1992\, Pencil on Paper\, 24 x 32cm\, Collection Iris
 h Museum of Modern Art\, Purchase 1996\, © Kathy Prendergast. (R) Chris L
 each\, Tallin\, Estonia\, Pencil\, scalpel\, burnishing tool\, rabbit skin
  gesso on quarter sawn oak\, 32 x 43mm (From Capital Cities series 2013-20
 23)
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Leinster
LOCATION:Butler Gallery\, Evans' Home\, John's Quay\, Kilkenny\, Kilkenny\,
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