Anglet Lalor’s ‘Still Life Sculpture’
Between the hours of 6 and 9pm, the beautiful and ambient Powerscourt Gallery opened its Georgian ballroom to showcase the talents of artists including Jimmy T. Murakami, Ross Stewart, Kieran Crowley, Sahoko Blake, Carole Shubotham and Brian Gallagher, whose selected works all showcase the nude form.
While the bare body is hardly groundbreaking subject matter in art world, this exhibition was anything but mundane; the variety of styles and different approaches to capturing the beauty of the human body was both inspiring and stimulating.
Such diversity was exemplified in the likes of Kieran Crowley’s playful portrait of a stern male model with a mimicking toy monkey perched on his shoulder, Crowley toys with the notion of masculinity in his smooth and realist style.
In another vein, Ross Stewart’s series of nude females in creative poses use a combination of washes, delicate line work and a simple colour palette to create a range of striking pictures.
'Reclining Nude'
Carole Shubotham’s ‘Emerald Nude’ was another stand out piece: a work of pure beauty in pastels, and Anglet Lalor’s still life sculptures dotted around the room were divine miniature marvels.
In warm relaxed surroundings, complimentary wine in hand, anyone who ventured into the Powerscourt Gallery was given the wonderful opportunity to par-take in a free life-drawing session with a live nude model, who changed pose every fifteen minutes to keep things interesting.
The feedback from participating roving artists on the night was in fact so positive that Powerscourt Gallery will be starting life-drawing classes within the next few weeks, with interactive elements and possible burlesque models.
The ‘Nude’ group exhibition runs until October 7.
Aoife Byrne.
Photos by: Aoife Byrne.
