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SUMMARY:Three kinds of time | Helen Blake at The Cash Shop
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Saturday\, the 21st of June\, 12 to 2pm.\n\n
 "There is something musical in how Helen Blake’s work unfolds over time.
  This is true of the artist’s process\; it is also true for the viewer. 
 The longer you spend with Blake’s work\, the more it yields. Blake paint
 s meticulously\, in oils\, on an increasingly small scale in recent years\
 , using canvases at times no larger than an average paperback. At first im
 pression\, these works convey a bright\, orderly abstraction\, composed of
  diamonds\, lozenges\, triangles\, and jagged serrations\, interlocked wit
 h a grid-like rectilinear formality. However\, upon closer inspection\, th
 ese repeated shapes and geometric impressions are not so streamlined or sy
 mmetrical as they appear\; they are not the product of careful planning bu
 t the result of gradually accreted layers of colour\, one laid one on top 
 of the other\, affecting one another without intermingling."\n\nDr. Nathan
  O’Donnell\nFrom ‘Recent Works’ Molesworth Gallery\, March 2017\n\nH
 elen Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour\; engaging with r
 hythm and formalism\, chance and deliberation.\n\nUsing a working method w
 here process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work\, she const
 ructs overtly hand-made paintings which record and examine colour conversa
 tions within accumulating pattern structures\, embracing accidents\, flaws
  and discrepancies within their rhythms.\n\nStarting from an imprecise gri
 d structure\, and rejecting the use of pre-drawn lines or tape\, she build
  up layers of simple hand-painted lines and geometric shapes – square\, 
 triangle\, rectangle\, chevron – to create intricate surfaces where colo
 ur fragments can interact\, sing together\, harmonise\, and sometimes jar.
 \n\nBlake grew up in Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, and graduated with an ho
 nours degree in Visual Art from Aberystwyth University\, Wales. She lives 
 and works in County Wicklow\, Ireland. She was runner-up for the Contempor
 ary British Painting Prize 2022.\n\nOther awards include the Arts Council 
 of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award\; The Model Cara Award\, Sligo\; Coun
 ty Wicklow Visual Arts Open\, Overall Winner\, Mermaid Art Centre\, Bray\,
  adjudicated by Patrick T Murphy\, Director\, RHA. Eleven solo exhibitions
  to date include Molesworth Gallery\, Dublin\; Fenderesky Gallery\, Belfas
 t\; Limerick Museum\; Mermaid Art Centre\, Bray\; FUTURES14\, RHA\, Dublin
 .\n\nHer paintings been shown in numerous exhibitions both nationally and 
 internationally\, including in the RHA Dublin and RA London Annual Exhibit
 ions. She is represented by Molesworth Gallery\, Dublin and Fenderesky Gal
 lery\, Belfast.\n\nThe Cash Shop is a curatorial project by artist Jim Ric
 ks and is a community-engaged contemporary visual arts hub in South County
  Galway.
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LOCATION:The Cash Shop\, The Cash Shop\, Gort\, Co. Galway\, H91 VH21\, Ire
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