BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:118@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250623T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250810T164500 DTSTAMP:20250808T090504Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/on-waking-group-exhibition-at-limerick -city-gallery-of-art SUMMARY:On Waking | Group Exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art DESCRIPTION:Exhibition continues 20 June - 10 August 2025.\n\nOn Waking\nJe nny Eden\, Christopher Hanlon\, Harminder Judge\, Gillian Lawler\,\nDamien Meade\, Karen Roulstone and Rebecca Sitar\n\n20th June – 10th August 20 25\nPreview 19th June from 5-7pm\n\nOn Waking is a group painting exhibiti on featuring new and existing work by seven painters from Ireland and the UK\, whose paintings communicate wonder and encounter\, things half-glimps ed\, remembered and imagined. It brings together paintings with an otherwo rldly sensibility\, where the slippage between recollection and metamorpho sis\, between what is real or imagined\, is played out in a series of new realities.\n\nThe title of the exhibition directs us to the ‘waking mome nt’ when our sense of time and reality is unlike usual conscious experie nces. As we leave the cocoon of sleep\, the veil between waking and sleepi ng falls away and the transition from sleep’s slumber ignites continuous time and an openness of the self – nothing is finite. In this ‘precon scious’ state we are open to the possibilities of ‘becoming’. Time f eels expansive\, fluid not fixed\, and divisions between past\, present an d future dissipate in favour of a temporal fusion. The paintings in On Wak ing mirror this moment in a myriad of poetic\, philosophical and perceptua l ways.\n\nOpening up to ‘being in the world’\, these paintings also p rompt a poetic sensibility and a different viewing\, an attentive and part icipatory gaze. Encouraging an active way of seeing\, the paintings do not describe an event\, they are an event\, resembling poems and Lavinia Gree nlaw’s notion of poetic form\; “it is this vessel\, and\, it is a plac e in which you hope the reader will have something activated for them rath er than enacted for them” [1]. And like poems\, paintings hold experienc e and perception acknowledged by the viewer in the act of looking\, who ch anges what is being observed and\, through observing\, becomes part of the picture.\n\nThe paintings in this exhibition invite a slow gaze\, a compl ex ritual in ways of seeing. They pivot between representation and abstrac tion\, looking one way and the other\, oscillating productively between th e two. Occupying this liminal space\, paintings become “potential images ”\, according to Dario Gamboni\, “[…] established – in the realm o f the virtual – by the artist but dependent on the beholder for their re alization. […] Their property is to make the beholder aware […] of the active\, subjective\, nature of seeing” [2].\n\nCurated and written by Jenny Eden &\; Rebecca Sitar\n\nReferences\n[1] BBC Radio 4 (2020) Only Artists: Lavinia Greenlaw meets Charles Avery\, 11th March 2020\, 14:29. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g43y].\n[2] Gamboni\, D. (2002) quot ed in B. Schwabsky\, ‘Everyday Painting’ (2011) Vitamin P2: New Perspe ctives in Painting. London: Phaidon Press Ltd\, p. 14.\n\nTheoretical and Socio-cultural Context\n\nThis exhibition stems from an interest in the hu man experience of time\, presented by phenomenologists Henri Bergson and M artin Heidegger. Bergson’s exploration of psychological time\, fused and in flux rather than formulaic and structured\, has particular relevance t o the exhibition. His notion of unfolding time\, where the past\, present and future converge within the human ‘encounter’\, is connected to the making and reception of paintings and central to an interpretation of the period of waking from sleep. In addition\, Martin Heidegger’s investiga tions into the ontology of being and ‘being in the world’ are also poi gnant\, suggesting an empowering responsibility in the durational activiti es of seeing and thinking.\n\nSiri Hustvedt’s essay ‘The Drama of Perc eption’ has also been considered in the context of the exhibition. Hustv edt examines the gaze from a neuroscientific perspective\, looking at the relationship between the pre-attentive and attentive gaze\, claiming a gap between these positions can 'open up' embodied engagement and ‘seeing w ith feeling’.\n\nWithin a wider artistic and philosophical context\, the works in On Waking highlight painting’s idiosyncratic characteristics a s a unique and distinct medium. Paintings hold the possibility of movement within stillness – they are containers of compressed time\, records of elongated time and an amalgamation of time-spaces from different periods. Thus\, in relation to Eastern Philosophy\, the paintings in this exhibitio n prompt a psychic experience whereby time and presence are refreshed and continuous\, and expansive moments of reflection and enlightenment are cha nnelled and processed.\n\nIn focusing on transitions and awakenings\, this exhibition promotes active looking\, mindful thinking and reception\, and a deeper appreciation of human time in relation to memory and experience. These paintings provide a counter to recent global socio-technological de velopments\, in the aftermath of lockdown decelerations\, addressing posit ive approaches to health and well-being and an attitude of slow thinking a nd contemplation.\n\nEnquiries to artgallery@limerick.ie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /07/Damien-Meade-Untitled-2022-oil-on-canvas-87.5-x-53.5cm_7.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster - Limerick LOCATION:Limerick City Gallery of Art\, Carnegie Building\, Pery Square\, L imerick\, Limerick\, V94 E67F\, Ireland GEO:52.658795;-8.629985 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Carnegie Building\, Pery Sq uare\, Limerick\, Limerick\, V94 E67F\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE =Limerick City Gallery of Art:geo:52.658795,-8.629985 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR