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Gillian Lever & Clement McAleer
8th January - 12th February, 2009
New works straight from the studios of Gillian Lever and Clement McAleer, launch Art First's 2009 exhibition programme
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Music is the formative source of inspiration for Lever, combining with her interest in architectural spaces and an engagement with abstraction's non-verbal, non-narrative roles. Suffused with an inner light, dense colour is built up from scraped surfaces and underlying layers to create a tension between vertical and horizontal elements. The affinity of her work with musical expression merges with a sculptural dimension, resulting in something precious and contemplative, but also seductive, beautiful and resolute.
Rooted firmly within the landscapes of Ireland, McAleer's paintings present us with shifting impressions - the imagery is at once descriptive and abstracted, fixed and fluid. These canvases explore the subject temporally as well as physically - in each brushstroke McAleer captures the light and essence of his subject - glimpsed, but not frozen, in time.
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