Exhibition upcoming in Riverbank

Robertstown artist Caoimhe McGuckin will be holding her first solo exhibition in the Riverbank Arts Centre, opening on Friday 9 September.

The collection, Fathom, makes use of collected, inherited and found objects of everyday use that carry meaning and memory. This exhibition brings together numerous artworks which explore measurement. For example, what makes a kilogram a kilogram? Who decided on this in the first place and how are these standards consistently maintained?

“Measurement is a subject most of us take for granted; it is an ordering principle that impacts every tiny area of our daily lives,” Caoimhe McGuckin notes. “I am fascinated by the idea that something as fundamental as units of measurement were conceived by humans." 

The themes of her work deal primarily with identity and human frailty.  

Fathom is supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service and Riverbank Arts Centre’s ‘Emerging Visual Artist Bursary Award’, which Caoimhe McGuckin was awarded in 2019. The Bursary is a collaboration between Kildare County Council Arts Service and Riverbank Arts Centre which enables the first major solo exhibition by an emerging artist. Previous recipients include Brenda Kearney, Marta Golubowska, Noel Hensey, Michelle McBride, Shane Hynan and Isobel Egan.

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