OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

We are absolutely delighted at the gallery with our artists' work for VUE this year and this great collaboration with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre.

Here is another great piece by gallery artist Adrienne Symes who has really delved into her own childhood memories for this themed show.

Adrienne Symes, 'Carpet Corner', oil on canvas, 20.5 x 20.5 cm.

And here is an extract from Kerry O'Sullivan's response in writing to the work.

'Details. You remember the details. The pattern on the rug beside the fireplace, The lines of laughter on your mother's face...'

Kerry O'Sullivan (aged 14)

Come to Vue and enjoy the experience.

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Image: Adrienne Symes, 'Hopscotch', oil on canvas, 25.5 x 25.5 cm.

This year is marked by the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice in Wonderland' and Universal Children's Day is celebrated in November every year.

With these two events in mind, the Olivier Cornet Gallery will be presenting a themed group show for Vue 2015 entitled ‘Hopscotch’. The show deals with childhood and childhood memories.

Selected pieces will be accompanied by text written by a group of young writers reacting to the works, in collaboration with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established by Seán Love and Roddy Doyle in 2009.

The gallery artists participating this year are Annika Berglund, Michelle Byrne, Conrad Frankel, Hugh Cummins, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Fornies, Jason Lowe, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford, and Adrienne Symes.

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Image: Eoin Mac Lochlainn, ‘Hallowe’en Apple no.2’, 20 x 20cm, oil on canvas, 2014 “I’ll be exhibiting a series of ‘Hallowe’en Apples’, remembering the old Hallowe’en games we played as kids – trying to bite the apple as it was floating in a bowl of water or, hanging by a string in a doorway – Good fun, of course, but the significance of those games too is lost in the mists of time.”

https://emacl.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/children-zombies-and-halloween-apples/

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Image: Kelly Ratchford, 'Yer Waans' (close up view), acrylic, ink and charcoal on 9 ready-made matchboxes, framed in a perspex box measuring 34 x 28 cm x 4 cm.

This year is marked by the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice in Wonderland' and Universal Children's Day is celebrated in November every year.

With these two events in mind, the Olivier Cornet Gallery will be presenting a themed group show for Vue 2015 entitled ‘Hopscotch’. The show deals with childhood and childhood memories.

Selected pieces will be accompanied by text written by a group of young writers reacting to the works, in collaboration with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established by Seán Love and Roddy Doyle in 2009.

The gallery artists participating this year are Annika Berglund, Michelle Byrne, Conrad Frankel, Hugh Cummins, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Fornies, Jason Lowe, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford, and Adrienne Symes.

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Image: Hugh Cummins, 'Maternal Care', wall piece (7 works of variable sizes, mahogany and bird's-eye maple)

This year is marked by the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice in Wonderland' and Universal Children's Day is celebrated in November every year.

With these two events in mind, the Olivier Cornet Gallery will be presenting a themed group show for Vue 2015 entitled ‘Hopscotch’. The show deals with childhood and childhood memories.

Selected pieces will be accompanied by text written by a group of young writers reacting to the works, in collaboration with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established by Seán Love and Roddy Doyle in 2009.

The gallery artists participating this year are Annika Berglund, Michelle Byrne, Conrad Frankel, Hugh Cummins, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Fornies, Jason Lowe, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford, and Adrienne Symes.

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Yanny Petters - ‘The Plants we played with’ (acrylic on dibond, 134x90cm), part of the Olivier Cornet Gallery’s ‘Hopscotch’ group show at Vue, an exhibition based on childhood and childhood memories.

A piece combining drawing and painting… because memories can be sketchy, we paint them in our mind’s eye... painted parts highlighting the aspects of the plants that were traditionally used in childhood games. A composition helping to join the narrative for those memories: The Nettle, dare to touch, opposite the Dock, its antidote.

A Dandelion Clock untouched as in memories and time standing still… Plantain soldiers, we hit the heads off each other’s soldiers. Is this the last man standing?... The Stickies, or Cleavers woven themselves amongst the plants, they do stick to everything with their little hairs. We used to throw them at each other…. What plants did you play with as a child, which plant brings back those childhood memories?

OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY at VUE 2015 with group show ‘Hopscotch’

Olivier Cornet Gallery at Vue 2015 – Group show ‘Hopscotch’ This year is marked by the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice in Wonderland' and Universal Children's Day is celebrated in November every year.

With these two events in mind, the Olivier Cornet Gallery will be presenting a themed group show for Vue 2015 entitled ‘Hopscotch’. The show deals with childhood and childhood memories.

Each piece will be accompanied by text written by a group of young writers reacting to the works, in collaboration with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established by Seán Love and Roddy Doyle in 2009.

The gallery artists participating this year are Annika Berglund, Michelle Byrne, Conrad Frankel, Hugh Cummins, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Fornies, Jason Lowe, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford, and Adrienne Symes.

Image: Conrad Frankel, 'Sugan Chair'