Kildare artist running solo exhibition in Dublin

Kildare artist McBett is displaying a new solo exhibition entitled Caillte agus Faighte/ Lost and Found at The Ivy House in Dublin.

McBett is also exhibiting at the Dross Evolution collective art gallery in the Moat Mall in Naas.

In 2001 when Art at The Ivy House was launched McBett was the first artist selected for a solo exhibition through an open call for Art at The Ivy House.

In this new solo exhibition McBett presents a series of works that have been revisited, reworked, remade for the context of the space.

Shot on the bridge to the new millennium in 1999-2000, shortly after McBett’s arrival in Dublin, these photos exhibited here for the first time, aim to express the sense of transition and impermanence she notes from that period.

The frozen motion black and white images -made on occasionally borrowed second hand analogue cameras and developed manually – preserve the memory of the instant they were shot.

Meanwhile, the old Smithfield Market was going to change face forever, most of the images represent people and situations at the monthly Horse Market in its temporary location on the back area of the Morning Star. Here they are printed and set as old newspapers into found drawers.

The other series of photos in the exhibition include elements of the city, rural markets and the passage of foreign cultures in its early stages, just on the sparkles of the economic boom once called the Celtic Tiger. These photos are enlarged and glued to re-painted boards like old walls on which the story of the time gets stuck like old posters to impressive effect.

For more information see: www.mcbett.ie