Gather, Wood.
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An Exhibition by Niamh O’Malley
A Scent by Géraldine Ignesta
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»An invitation to touch. A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.«
Texture | SOFT, CURVED, MUTED
Feeling | TACTILE, FAMILIAR
Outline | MUSKY DRY-WOOD
MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK
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GATHER, THE EXHIBITION
Presented at the 59th Venice Biennale's Pavilion of Ireland (2022), "Gather" explores how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects and spaces. O'Malley's sculptural works invite us to slow down and notice the subtle qualities of material presence.
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OLFACTIVE PUBLICATION 04 — 23
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| SELECT BOTTLE COLOR AFTER PURCHASE
An Exhibition by Niamh O’Malley
A Scent by Géraldine Ignesta
╸
»An invitation to touch. A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.«
Texture | SOFT, CURVED, MUTED
Feeling | TACTILE, FAMILIAR
Outline | MUSKY DRY-WOOD
MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK
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GATHER, THE EXHIBITION
Presented at the 59th Venice Biennale's Pavilion of Ireland (2022), "Gather" explores how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects and spaces. O'Malley's sculptural works invite us to slow down and notice the subtle qualities of material presence.
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OLFACTIVE PUBLICATION 04 — 23
| INCLUDES A COMPLIMENTARY 10ML
| SELECT BOTTLE COLOR AFTER PURCHASE
An Exhibition by Niamh O’Malley
A Scent by Géraldine Ignesta
╸
»An invitation to touch. A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.«
Texture | SOFT, CURVED, MUTED
Feeling | TACTILE, FAMILIAR
Outline | MUSKY DRY-WOOD
MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK
_
GATHER, THE EXHIBITION
Presented at the 59th Venice Biennale's Pavilion of Ireland (2022), "Gather" explores how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects and spaces. O'Malley's sculptural works invite us to slow down and notice the subtle qualities of material presence.
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Niamh O’Malley’s artwork reveals a profound appreciation for the act of trying. Trying to catch a certain slant of light, trying to prove a pattern or uncover a composition, trying to fathom a mountain, trying to hold time still. Working with the moving image, mark making and sculptural materials such as glass and wood, O’Malley’s work attempts to contain and reflect the weight and wonder of the world in its becoming. It is the act of trying, in the face of predictable failure, that gives way to conviction and a sense of hope within the artist’s work. Full of reflection, both literal and metaphorical, filled with absence and framed by negative space, O’Malley’s work asserts something unstoppable about the human spirit, something that neither distance nor death can extinguish. By Kate Strain
Niamh O’Malley in her Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2021
Photograph: Dragana Jurisic
Courtesy Ireland at Venice 2022