BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:382@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250905T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251017T170000 DTSTAMP:20251003T090732Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/the-dichotomy-of-change-betty-gannon-a nd-tony-gunning-at-aras-inis-gluaire SUMMARY:The Dichotomy of Change | Betty Gannon and Tony Gunning at Aras Ini s Gluaire DESCRIPTION:The Dichotomy of Change\nThe Dichotomy of Change brings togethe r the work of Betty Gannon and Tony Gunning to explore the layered and evo lving nature of our environments\, both natural and man-made. Though their subject matter diverge\, Gannon focusing on threatened sea and land fores ts\, and Gunning on abandoned rural buildings\, both artists present space s deeply rooted in history\, memory\, and transformation.\n\nGannon’s mi xed media works offer a contemplative response to the vulnerable ecosystem s of Irish oak woodlands and oceanic seaweed forests. Her work highlights the quiet beauty of these habitats while underscoring their fragility in t he face of human impact and climate change. In parallel\, Gunning’s pain tings of derelict structures evoke the echoes of lives once lived\, shaped by waves of emigration\, economic hardship\, and rural decline. His work captures not only the starkness of abandonment but also the enduring beaut y and significance of these spaces.\n\nTogether\, their practices undersco re a shared concern for the erosion of place\, whether ecological or cultu ral\, and reflect on how such environments\, though worn and weathered\, c ontinue to act as living repositories of memory\, identity\, and resilienc e.\n\n“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself\, ‘What if I had n ever seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’” Ra chel Carson\n\nAndrew Pelham-Burn\, writer and poet\n\nBetty Gannon lives and works in Westport\, Co Mayo\, mainly working in drawing\, painting and mixed media work. She was selected for many solo exhibitions throughout I reland and Northern Ireland and also selected for numerous group exhibitio ns both nationally and internationally. Gannon was an award winner at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Summer Exhibition in 2018\, she was awarded an Ag ility Award in 2021 from the Arts Council of Ireland and was selected for a residency in Krems\, Austria in 2022. She is currently researching and c reating work supported by a Sustainable Arts Bursary Award from Wilderland a public art &\; community ecology project in Co Mayo.\n\nTony Gunning has been a professional artist since 2000. Following his sell-out debut at the Davis Gallery\, Dublin\, in 2002 he has had fifteen solo shows and has exhibited at numerous group shows including RA\, RHA and RUA annual e xhibitions. In 2007 he won the Curator’s Award and the Bank of Ireland E merging Artist Award at EV+A (Ireland’s pre-eminent contemporary arts sh owcase). Internationally he has exhibited solo at the European Parliament\ , Brussels and was part of the Irish representation at the Florence Bienna le 2005. His work is in many public and private collections including th e National Collection (O.P.W.)\, the Northern Ireland Collection (Stormont ) and the Bank of Ireland Collection. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /08/The-Last-Post.jpg CATEGORIES:Connaught,Exhibition LOCATION:Aras Inis Gluaire\, Church Street\, Belmullet\, Mayo\, F26W5H0\, C onnaught\, Ireland GEO:54.221997;-9.987227 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Church Street\, Belmullet\, Mayo\, F26W5H0\, Connaught\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Aras Inis Gluaire:geo:54.221997,-9.987227 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