Upon Reflection
Exhibition of Bronze Sculptures and Graphics
by John Coll
May 19th - Jun 8th 2000
Official Opening by Joe Mc Donagh (Former President GAA)
 #1 Flamingo Figure (Large) |
 #2 Flamingo Figure (Macquette) |
 #3 Pelvic Figure |
 #4 Up She Flew |
 #5 Butchered Bone |
 #6 Vertebra Figure I |
 #7 Jaw Bone Figure |
 #8 Flamingo Figure II |
 #9 Vertebra Figure II |
 #10 Conch-u-Gation |
 #11 21st Century Venus |
 #12 Táin Bulls |
 #13 Seamus Heany Study |
#14 Winter Ptarmigans |
#15 Patrick Kavanagh (Maquette) |
 #16 Every Old Man I See |
 #17 The Ould Triangle |
#18 The Owl Triangle |
 #19 Curlew Reflection |
#20 Joe Heaney - Sean Nos Singer |
#21 Don Búchaill Caol Dubh |
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#22 Mutton Island Revisited |
#23 Dutch Model |
#24 Pelvic Figure (Study) |
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#25 Vertebra Figure Study |
#26 Homeward, Van Gogh |
#27 Gannet Skull Study |
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#28 Self Portrait |
#29 Window Woman Amsterdam |
#30 Summer Road Towards Errisbeg |
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#31 Nude Study – II Standing |
#32 Nude Study - Back |
#33 Male Torso |
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#34 Study of Francis Bacon |
#35 Francis Bacon Shouting |
#36 Homage to Francis Bacon |
The initial inspiration for this show emerged from an environment that has intrigued John since his early childhood, the sea-shore. That ever-changing interface between land and sea, a zone of reflections. On the shore one rarely sees an object be it bird, cloud or stone without its reflection being somewhere in your field of vision. This then produces a new, often distorted dichotomous image of the object.
In many ways John feels that this is analogous with the way we view objects. Not only is the object seen by the eye but as the image enters our unconscious, it evokes associated images that are modulated by our emotions and our experiences of the forms and lines within that object.
So John's aim is to create new sculptural forms whose shape is inspired by both the concrete visual image of found objects, many from the sea-shore, and the product of the minds "free floating" reflection upon them.
This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Colm Conneely.
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