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Solstice Publications

to hold or to be held
by Mark Garry

€25 + €7 post and packaging

This publication is the second collaboration between artist Mark Garry and graphic designer Louise Reddy, coinciding with Garry’s exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre. Rather than addressing Garry's artistic responses directly, the texts that make up this publication respond to the broader research area that informed the exhibition - empathy and altruism and the complicated nature of how these elements are utilised in social relations.

A DELICATE BOND WHICH IS ALSO A GAP 
by Isabel Nolan 

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Designed with Oonagh Young, this beautiful publication features work exhibited in Nolan’s comprehensive 2021 exhibition ‘A delicate bond which is also a gap’ at Solstice, and a body of work which followed on from the making of the show. The exhibition alluded to a vast span of time bringing together drawings, sculpture, two woven images of the 40,000-year-old sculpture “Löwenmensch”, “Miracle Wave 2698 CE” and concluding with the ambitious, specially commissioned tapestry summoning images of the disintegrating sun “When the sky above will not be named”. The publication features texts by the artist; Irish fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford; Berlin based writer and critic Martin Herbert, and an introduction by Solstice director Belinda Quirke.

“The bonds that make us less lonely, that enable us to inhabit this world, seem to defy time and space. They connect us across all kinds of intervals - sonic, spatial, somatic and temporal. These delicate bonds that are also gaps are sub-atomic, social and aesthetic, both fundamental and a matter of convention. It is not miraculous but it can feel as near as dammit. We are the brief emanations of fields that are quantum, electromagnetic, gravitational, chemical, mental, and cultural. We work perpetually to understand each other, the universe, and ourselves. We do this over and over again, alone but together”.
- Isabel Nolan

The Yellow River
by Seán McSweeney & Gerard Smyth

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The Yellow River is a tributary of the Blackwater (Kells), which joins the Boyne at Navan, County Meath that unites the personal histories of poet Gerard Smyth and artist Seán McSweeney. Gerard Smyth spent many summers in Meath staying with his grandmother and an aunt, whilst originally Sean McSweeney’s family lived in Clongill until the untimely death of his father.

Over the last two years Gerard Smyth has been revisiting Meath in further inquiry with Belinda Quirke, Director of Solstice, in the development of a new suite of poems, recollecting and revisiting significant sites of occurrence in the poet’s and county’s history. Seán McSweeney has created new work from recent trips to his father's homeplace and the county. McSweeney here responds lyrically to particular sites of Smyth’s poetry, whilst also depicting in watercolour, ink, tempera and drawing, the particular hues of The Royal County.

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