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In this solo exhibition of paintings, Kierans has depicted surreal scenarios that are conjured from his imagination. Although often dealing with everyday experiences, these sometimes
unsettling images hover between horror and science fiction.
The artist is interested in how imagination shapes and transforms our experience and how internal narratives are conceived and influence our thoughts, imagination, dreams, and desires. Specific motifs taken from popular culture appear and reappear: Tippie Hedren, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic heroines, is seen in one work as a topless gardener in rubber gloves tending a young sapling, and in another as a faceless shop dummy in a complex painting, where strange and seemingly unrelated characters are jostled together in a faux jungle scene.
It is the artist’s commitment to bringing together the unrelated that offers his paintings a dream-like unease and powerful unreliability.
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Emmet Kierans (b. 1981) currently lives and works in London. He studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design, where he graduated with first class honours in 2002. In 2007 he graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with an MFA. He now has a studio at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation. His work is in the public collections of The Arts Council of Ireland, The Office of Public Works (Ireland) and Trinity College, Dublin.
Unit 2, Boothby Road, Archway, London, N19 4AJ, UK.
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