Photo: Sinead Dinneen
‘KICKING the Bucket’ is a new visual art show to do with “personal expressions and work relating to illness, dying and death, which includes videos, paintings, drawings, death/ life masks, memento mori, and coffins”.
It opens on Monday May 23 at 7pm for a week at Central Buildings; 11am to 5pm and free entry.
Promising an engaging, thought-provoking take on these themes and emblems, ‘Kicking the Bucket’ is curated by Katie Verling, artistic director and Sinead Dinneen, visual artist, teacher and performer. It’s a group show of works in mixed media.
We’re told, “The aim of the exhibition is to prompt discussions about the inevitability of death and to encourage conversations with friends, families and the wider community”.
Of Pauline Goggin’s work, pictured, Verling reports: “Pauline made moulds of all those who took part in the Kicking the Bucket project. This involved having plaster of paris applied to our whole faces and staying still until it hardened while breathing through straws in our nostrils.
“It was a profound experience of all 12 of us. Usually death masks are made after death. In this case Pauline applying the principal to living humans to communicate a profound truth about humanity… mortality”.
Explore first hand next week at CB1 Gallery, Central Buildings at 51a O’Connell Street, until Saturday 28.
It is funded by Milford Care Centre’s Compassionate Communities initiative.
