Claire Curneen & David Quinn Solo Exhibitions open at Anima Mundi

Anima Mundi are delighted to present two deeply engaging, inaugural solo exhibitions from Claire Curneen and David Quinn both of which are now open at the gallery.

David Quinn’s ‘Cloghan’ is on floors 1 & 2 and Claire Curneen’s ’Through Living Roots Awaken’ is on Floors 2 & 3 of the gallery.

Claire Curneen’s iconic sculptures are poignant contemplations on the liminal and precarious nature of the human condition; exploring themes around death, rebirth and the sublime. Universal and profound states of fear, loss, suffering and sacrifice fuse with devotion, desire, wonder and mystery to underlie each intricate, porcelain figure. Their translucent and fragile qualities offer potent, metaphoric abstract narratives. Porcelain, terracotta and black stoneware create a grounded vulnerability to these works, with dribbles of glaze and flashes of gold to embellish denoted sacred qualities.

Working on several pieces at once, David Quinn’s studio is an intimate, white, rectangular space where small scale, inter-related yet instinctively painted works, hang in line or grid. Each piece a self contained unit, both unique and yet part of a greater whole, as if individual words as part of a sentence, notes in a tune or hours in a day. What at first glance appears simple, minimal and understated, reveals itself upon closer inspection to be multilayered and imbued with quiet complexity, where a unique history is accumulated, built like strata in sedimentary rock. A finished painting is the summary of the process of its creation: a concentrated form or essence, containing both purity and imperfection, each tablet a poetic palimpsest, considered by Quinn as a marker of time, spent in contemplation - akin perhaps to a physical embodiment of meditation or a prayer.

The exhibitions both continue from 8/4 until 21/5/2022 at Anima Mundi.


To view Claire Curneen’s ’Through Living Roots Awaken’ click here

To view David Quinn’s ‘Cloghan’ click here