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Jerome O'Connell, 8 Jul
A NEW exhibition exploring the female body will open this July in
Limerick.
Sian Costello’s imminent solo exhibition, Hot Child, will open on
Thursday, July 25 from 7 to 9pm at Ormston House.
In this show, featuring several large new works, Costello continues her
exploration of representing the female body via performative
self-portraiture.
Those already familiar with this artist’s works will note numerous key
developments in the new paintings shown here. Crucially, we see a
dissolution of the depicted subject via the presence of more negative
space; recognisable representational details are married with gestural
abstraction. Costello’s compositions are charged with a tangible
jouissance, and she evidently takes much pleasure in producing them.
READ MORE: Take a peek at what Limerick looked like 200 years ago!
Born in Roscommon in 1998, Costello graduated from Fine Art Painting at
the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2020 and has been exhibiting
consistently since then.
Most of the works included in this exhibition have been produced while
the artist was on residency at Malt AIR visual arts residency program
in Ebeltoft, Denmark.