Human Signature
VISUAL
Human Signature: A lens based exhibition
Opens Saturday July 3rd
Sat 3rd July – Sat 24th July
Sarah Sexton still from Dawn to Dusk
Event Details
Time & Date:
Tuesday 11am – 3pm
Wednesday 11am – 3pm
Thursday 11am – 3pm
Friday 11am – 3pm
Saturday 11am – 4pm
Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Duration:
Sat 3rd July – Sat 24th July
Event Categories:
Admission:
Free
Venue:
Hyde Bridge Gallery
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Human Signature is an exhibition of four lens-based artists who are based both locally and nationally. These artists are Paul Cabena, Anna Leask, Sarah Sexton and Mateja Šmic. Each artist has been selected by Barry Mc Hugh, a curator based in the local community.
The works have been chosen in response to the theme of human mark on the environment, both architecturally and culturally. The exhibition features new and works and will feature both film and photography.
Clockwise from left: LIffeyscape VI 6 Mateja-Smic, untitled Paul-Cabena, Butcher Room Anna-Leask
The exhibition will be held in the Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo Town Centre From Saturday July 3rd (opening at 3pm) until Saturday July 24th. Exhibition closed Sunday & Monday.
Paul Cabena
Paul Cabena is a Sligo based artist who uses paint, photography and digital collage. Paul’s photography looks at the different types of architecture, often the compositions highlight the absence of human figures within the work.
Anna Leask
Born in the Shetland Islands in 1976, Anna Leask moved to Sligo in 2000 and studied Fine Art in IT Sligo receiving her BA (Hons) in 2016. She has also studied Film Production and TV and Film Editing.
In her art practice, Leask mainly works using a photographic printing process called Cyanotype which incorporates new digital technology and drawing. Leask has created a body of work investigating the essence of her identity moving from the small Scottish islands to her new adopted home of Sligo.
Sarah Sexton
Sarah Sexton is a visual artist and art educator working in Co. Sligo. She works through the media of photography, sculpture, installation, drawing and collage. A major focus is the effect of time passing over abandoned spaces and things, and the relevance of the past in the here and now. Sarah is interested in the function of seemingly disused spaces, viewing them as a time-capsule, a portal into the past.
Mateja Smic
Mateja Smic is Dublin based visual artist working with coffee, gelatine and other, often non-traditional materials, chosen by a principle of association with her subject matter. Her recent subjects range from geopolitics to national identity. Through printmaking, digital collage, video and animation Smic’s installations combine philosophical and psychological questions of experience, the phenomenon of Othering and tensions between the real subject and its mediated representations.