Colour Beyond the Pale
Colour Beyond the Pale
NOV 6 – 9 2025
Opening: Friday 7th of November 6pm
Artists: Elizabeth Cope, Peter Burns, Nuala Clarke, Budi Gugi, Tim Millen | Curated by Rosemarie Noone
Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025
Colour Beyond the Pale brings together five painters: Budi Gugi, Peter Burns, Tim Millen, Elizabeth Cope, and Nuala Clarke - whose work celebrates the expressive power of colour. Their paintings share a fearless commitment to colour as a vehicle for emotion, exploration, and form, pushing beyond restraint into realms of intensity and revelation.
The exhibition features around fifty paintings, ranging widely in scale and price, from intimate works on paper to large-scale canvases. Each artist explores a distinct relationship with the material and symbolic life of colour: Tim Millen’s creaturely forms navigate a dissolving natural order; Elizabeth Cope’s new and past works form a vibrant continuum of struggle and renewal; and Budi Gugi’s poetic paintings balance solitude, joy, and sorrow through a meditative use of light and tone. Peter Burns’ vivid narratives blend myth and humour in charged compositions, while Nuala Clarke’s atmospheric abstractions evoke the sensory experience of place and memory.
Together, these artists create a dialogue that moves beyond boundaries—tradition and experimentation, the seen and the felt. Colour Beyond the Pale celebrates painting’s enduring ability to illuminate, to provoke, and to connect through the transformative language of colour.
Pop-Up Exhibition | 3–4 Frederick Street South, Dublin 2
Presented by Claremorris Gallery
OPENING:
Friday 7th of November at 6.00pm - 9.00pm
GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday: 10am – 5.30pm
Friday: 10am – 9pm
Saturday: 10.30am – 5pm
Sunday: 10.30am – 5pm
CONTACT:
info@claremorrisgallery.com
087 791 2337
Elizabeth Cope
Irish Artist Elizabeth Cope was born in 1952 in Co. Kildare. She currently lives and works in Co. Kilkenny.
Cope has exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world for the past 40 years and is found in many important public and private collections.
“I paint through the chaos of everyday life, if I were to wait for a quiet moment I would never paint. I believe that painting should also be like dancing and that the real ‘work of art’ is not so much the canvas when the paint is dry, but rather the physical rhythm of the process of painting it.”- Elizabeth Cope
Tim Millen
Tim Millen graduated with an MA in Fine Art with distinction from the University of Ulster (2011) having completed a BA Painting at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (1999). His paintings explore themes of ecology, mythology and place.
Nuala Clarke
Nuala Clarke (born Ireland 1970) studied Fine Art Painting at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She moved to New York City in 1993. In September 2007, received a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo and began returning to Ireland from NY to work every year.
“My work is concerned with the organisation of space, the relationship between matter and energy and how it is all intrinsically connected to time.” – Nuala Clarke
Peter Burns
Born in 1979, Peter Burns earned his BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin. He lives and works in the Co. Mayo.
Budi Gugi
Budi Gugi is an Indonesian painter who lives on the Island of Bali. Budi is a self-described loner, who spends 99% of his time in solitude. His paintings reflect this isolated existence and express the beauty of life, with an equal appreciation of both joy and sorrow. According to Budi,
“Being an artist is like taking a small and lonely path, where we can see beautiful scenery, we can see mountains, river, jungle, bird, sky, everything but in the end, the only one we can talk to is ourselves.”
Elizabeth Cope
Irish Artist Elizabeth Cope was born in 1952 in Co. Kildare. She currently lives and works in Co. Kilkenny.
Cope has exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world for the past 40 years and is found in many important public and private collections.
“I paint through the chaos of everyday life, if I were to wait for a quiet moment I would never paint. I believe that painting should also be like dancing and that the real ‘work of art’ is not so much the canvas when the paint is dry, but rather the physical rhythm of the process of painting it.”- Elizabeth Cope
Tim Millen
Tim Millen graduated with an MA in Fine Art with distinction from the University of Ulster (2011) having completed a BA Painting at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (1999). His paintings explore themes of ecology, mythology and place.
Nuala Clarke
Nuala Clarke (born Ireland 1970) studied Fine Art Painting at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She moved to New York City in 1993. In September 2007, received a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo and began returning to Ireland from NY to work every year.
“My work is concerned with the organisation of space, the relationship between matter and energy and how it is all intrinsically connected to time.” – Nuala Clarke
Peter Burns
Born in 1979, Peter Burns earned his BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin. He lives and works in the Co. Mayo.
