Man & Horse for Riverbank

A new exhibition at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge will explore the relationship between man and horse.

Provenance by Laurence Riddell runs from Friday 30 September to Saturday 29 October. Admission is free.

The works are the result of a residency at Kildangan Stud by Laurence Riddell, and are a selection of photographs that examine the notion of tradition synonymous with the thoroughbred horse through an investigation into the nature of representation.

The images are staged re-enactments involving a range of processes and an interplay of elements that allows for the co-existence of illusion and reality. This creates a disjunction between what a work appears to say and what is said, while questioning the traditional criteria of meaning, which is already in place to receive such imagery.

Laurence Riddell studied Fine Art at The University of Ulster, Belfast. He is currently lecturing on the B.A Visual Arts Practice programme at the Dun Laoighaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

EDITOR NOTE: If anyone can understand the above, I would be grateful for a translation in real English.