Light often plays a significant part in setting their mood, and in this exhibition she has chosen to induce a feeling of liminality through an evocation of the ambivalence of dusk and dawn, the transitional hours between night and day. A generous variety of carefully made objects and images are set and hung in this new place – monochrome photographs, sculptures, weavings – and together they are suggestive of a world of reticent lyricism and melancholia that bears within it the possibility of hope and transformation. This mood, of course, is reminiscent of classic Romanticism, and combined with the modernist vocabulary of her sculptural work, it is what makes Caoimhe Kilfeather’s art unusual and so special.

In recent years Caoimhe Kilfeather has shown widely in Ireland, and in 2014 she held a highly-praised exhibition, which was accompanied by a particularly beautiful publication, at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

Click here to view the Caoimhe Kilfeather publication.

Image: (left) Caoimhe Kilfeather, the night bent down (detail), 2016. Dyed concrete, cast iron, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (right) Caoimhe Kilfeather, in life (v), 2016. Archival pigment print, 58.5 x 86.5 cm (framed). Courtesy of the artist.