'Plant' by Debbie Godsell
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Opening 3pm Saturday 7th of November
Admission Free | All are welcome.
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Godsell presents a new body of hybrid works that occupy an ambiguous space between image, object, and surface. Combining upholstery, repurposed textiles, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, the works feature layered and manipulated imagery disrupted through padding, stitching, and printing processes.
The artist explores how landscape, folklore, and historical narratives shape cultural identity and collective memory. Drawing on contested and culturally sensitive histories, Godsell examines the stories through which Irish identity has been constructed, paying particular attention to the tensions and omissions embedded within them. Romanticised landscapes and inherited myths are reconsidered as sites where questions of belonging, privilege, conflict, and exclusion continue to resonate. Godsell uses Stereotypical, fetishised, and contested landscapes to consider how ideas of identity remain bound to land and its representation. Subversively humorous and psychologically charged, the works reflect the cultural narratives that continue to shape collective experience.
Admission Free | All are welcome.
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Godsell presents a new body of hybrid works that occupy an ambiguous space between image, object, and surface. Combining upholstery, repurposed textiles, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, the works feature layered and manipulated imagery disrupted through padding, stitching, and printing processes.
The artist explores how landscape, folklore, and historical narratives shape cultural identity and collective memory. Drawing on contested and culturally sensitive histories, Godsell examines the stories through which Irish identity has been constructed, paying particular attention to the tensions and omissions embedded within them. Romanticised landscapes and inherited myths are reconsidered as sites where questions of belonging, privilege, conflict, and exclusion continue to resonate. Godsell uses Stereotypical, fetishised, and contested landscapes to consider how ideas of identity remain bound to land and its representation. Subversively humorous and psychologically charged, the works reflect the cultural narratives that continue to shape collective experience.
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Where is it happening?
6 Lombard Street, Waterford, Ireland X91 F2XP, Ireland
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Host or PublisherGOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford
