an exhibition of works by Valerie Joyce & John Kingerlee Friday 7th November - 28th November 2008 at The Kenny Gallery, Galway Please contact us should you require additional information on any of the below listed works. Please include relevant contact details with your query and we will get in touch with you. tel:+353 91 534760    email: art@kennys.ie

1. Sarong, Sri Lanka I by Valerie Joyce Mixed Media on Paper 36x33cm €950	2. Sarong, Sri Lanka II by Valerie Joyce Mixed Media on Paper 36x33cm €950	3. Mountjoy Studio Series I by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cm €1350
4. Mountjoy Studio Series II by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cm €1350	5. Mountjoy Studio Series III by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cm €1350	6. Mountjoy Studio Series IV by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cm €1350
7. Mountjoy Studio Series V by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cmn €1350	8. Mountjoy Studio Series VI by Valerie Joyce Oil & Gesso on Paper 33x33cmn €1350	9. Deep Seas by Valerie Joyce Mixed Media on Paper 35x33cm €950
10. Sky and Sea I by Valerie Joyce Gouache & Pastel on Vellum 20x25cm €795	11. Sky and Sea II by Valerie Joyce Gouache & Pastel on Paper 12x18cm €675	12. Sky, Sea, Mountains, Sri Lanka by Valerie Joyce Gouache on Paper 10x15cm €495
13. Greek I by Valerie Joyce Gouache on Paper 18x12cm €595	14. Greek II by Valerie Joyce Gouache on Paper 18x12cm €595	15. Greek III by Valerie Joyce Gouache on Paper 18x12cm €595
16. Writers in the Courtyard by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 28x42cm €4,500	17. Goodbye, Then by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 29x39cm €4,500	18. For Solshenitzen by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 29x40cm €4,500
19. Witness by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 31x23cm €2,950.00	20. Forest, Northern by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 28x20cm €2,950	21. Untitled by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 29x20cm €2,950
22. Man, Tree by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 20x29cm €2,950	23. The Boat Goes Out by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 46x31cm €4,500	24. Stick and Rip with Figures by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 46x31cm €4,500
25. Friends by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 40x27cm €4,500	26. Composition with Figures by John Kingerlee Mixed Media with Collage 42x27cm €4,500

beautiful place

beautiful place is the title of an exhibition of new paintings by John Kingerlee and Valerie Joyce which goes on show in the Kenny Gallery on November 7th. This beautiful place is a contemplative space one is brought to through the paintings of these artists. The idea came to John Kingerlee when he first saw Valerie’s work. He spoke to her about the idea of a joint show, and then made a selection from her paintings, and she in turn selected his images for the exhibition.

Several years ago walking about in the village of Roundstone I was thrilled to see the work of Valerie Joyce for the first time. -A sunny morning in the street and a sunny morning in the Gallery called Art in Heaven. I bought a picture and it was the fulfillment of words that had haunted me a long time: Arte Povera - words that have an increasing significance as we daily witness the ongoing collapse of our society all about us. The greater the flamboyance, the greater the inward collapse.

The picture bought was of sea, rock and sky. Gouache and thick pencil.It`s paper very beautiful in it`s agedness,a page from an old Greek Grammar. Eroded and yellowed at the edges by numerous hands and fingers long since dead.

Like Valerie I pick up the discarded and value what many find insignificant. Old books, old papers, old ledgers, to mention but a little. Both of us thrill to the directness and simplicity of works on paper. - I am very happy we`re showing together.

- JOHN KINGERLEE October 2008

Valerie Joyce is a Clifden born artist who trained in fine art painting in NCAD and in Drama and Theatre Studies in the RTC Inchicore. Her artistic journey began in Conamara and has taken her to Munich, Sri Lanka, Temple Bar, Saarbrucken and eventually to Artspace Studios in Galway. She makes work with whatever medium her ideas lead her to… oils, watercolours, pastels, photography, video, poetry, currachs, willows, potatoes, tepees, fire, water etc.

John Kingerlee was born in Birmingham, England. In 1982, he moved to an isolated farmhouse on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. A non-conformist at heart, he has turned his back on the traditional ways of seeing and depicting landscape --- as a series of parallel planes that are made to appear to recede from the foreground to the background by the manipulation of linear and aerial perspective. He takes a different approach that is as radical as it is original. He wants his art to recreate the experience of being in and moving through the landscape.