Exhibition explores the power and provocation of the colour pink
The colour pink is the focus of the exhibition.
‘Bándearg’ (Pink), a new exhibition, featuring five female artists working in Ireland, is currently open at Books At One, Louisburgh.
The exhibition brings together a diverse collective of artists, Olivia Jones, Tina Poole, Anna Marie Savage, Nickie Harrington, and Maria Mollohan, to explore the colour pink as both a physical material and a complex cultural symbol.
Historically associated with innocence and softness, the colour is reclaimed within this exhibition as a site of strength, resistance, and emotional depth. By navigating the fusion of red’s intensity and white’s openness, the artists use pink to examine the tensions between surface and depth, ranging from architectural lines to atmospheric abstraction.
"The vibrancy, energy, and the focus on pink as a theme by this group of female artists drew me to want them to exhibit in our gallery here in Louisburgh," says Lisa Murphy, Manager at Books At One.
The exhibition, which runs until May 13th, showcases a range of styles, from hard-edge geometric patterns to delicate, nature-inspired washes
Olivia Jones (Sligo) presents works rooted in architectural discipline and structure while Tina Poole (Dublin) is an abstract painter focusing on energy and movement.
Anna Marie Savage (Louth) explores abstraction inspired by water, ecology and unseen natural processes and Nickie Harrington (Roscommon) specialises in precise, hard-edge geometric art. The fifth artist, Maria Mollohan (Leitrim), is a contemporary printmaker, specialising in silkscreen, photography, etching, lithography, cyanotype, and woodblock techniques.
