Iceland
Iceland
SEP 14 – OCT 5 2024
Artists: Kaye Maahs
Iceland is a body of work borne out of diaries made by Maahs during her time in Iceland in 2019; time that was supported by The Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award.
In these paintings Maahs’ intuitive and tactical handling of paint revels in the majestic and ethereal settings of the Icelandic landscape. Maahs paintings don’t scream for attention, instead the unpretentious use of paint beckons silently to the viewer; to explore, and to consider our relationship with the natural world, while at the same time calling attention to the physicality of their medium. Maahs works ‘wet into wet’ and it is this immediacy that allows her paintings to retain the energy and excitement of that process.
OCT 28 – NOV 11, 2023
wed to sat, 1 – 6pm, or by appointment
Kaye Maahs
About the work
Kaye Maahs was born in Kerry in 1970. She received a BA in Fine Art from Atlantic Technological University Galway in 2015, and lives and works in the Burren, Co. Clare. Maahs was awarded The Alex Bradley Award for a Mid-Career Artist in 2024 by the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. Previous to this Maahs’ has been a recipient of two Art Council Agility Awards, the Clare Arts Mentoring Scheme at Glór support by Creative Ireland and the Arts Council and The Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award 2019. Maahs’ work has been exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; the Royal Academy London; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo; Burren College of Art, Clare; Glór, Clare; Cairde Visual, Sligo: among others.
