This Must Be The Place is a new series of public lectures that takes its title from the 1983 Talking Heads song, a song that was unusual in their catalogue as a love song to place and home. The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme. Talks are live and in person and held in the RHA Friends Room on Thursday evenings. The series will feature artist talks by Ciara Roche, Fiona Whelan, Dominique Crowley, Alan James Burns and Michelle Malone and will continue in 2023.
This is the first of a series of talks, hosted in person in the RHA Friends room on Thursday evenings at 5.30 pm during October and November.
Artist bio:
Ciara Roche makes hundreds of small paintings on paper and some larger paintings on canvas. Her paintings are restless and full of detail, they are an exploration of light & colour, they can be uncanny and sometimes off kilter – a familiar places made strange. These paintings are full of tension between reality & fiction and desire & disgust.
Recent exhibitions include MATAIRLANDIA – World Trade Centre – Jakarta and Selasar Sunaryo – Bandung in Indonesia 2022, Generation 2022 – Butler Gallery 2022, Hennessy Craig Exhibition – Royal Hibernian Academy 2022. of late… (solo) at mother’s tankstation Gallery 2021 and Ochre (two person) at Wexford Arts Centre 2021. She was awarded the Next Generation Award with the Arts Council and won the KM Evans painting prize in 2022. In 2020 she won the Éigse Graduate Prize with Carlow Arts Festival for her work in ARTWORKS, Visual. Her work is included in many significant collections globally including the Maybourne Beverly Hills Hotel, USA, Château la Coste, France, Lismore Castle collection and UCC Collection.
Image: Ciara Roche, Still 12 (after Halloween), 15cm x 21cm, oil on paper, 2022, courtesy of Ross Kavanagh & Butler Gallery.