S.H.E.W. (b. 2000) Annamakerigh

This landscape is a unified composition of dark green fields, overcast skies and mountainous terrain which is perhaps only surprising when one learns that this is the work of two artists, Eileen Healy and Sabine Weißbach, who collaborated on a series of paintings in the early 2000s.

While both artists are known for their individual practices, this painting represents a dialogue between their respective styles, combining elements of realism and abstraction, figuration and experimentation. It is appropriate that its title references and celebrates the location of Ireland’s foremost residential workspace, a cross-border organisation in County Monaghan that  offers time away, space to work and networking opportunities for artists across all art forms. The intermingling of ideas and creative energy that happens in Annaghmakerrig is captured here as a wild, vital landscape and physically embodied in the shared presence of both artists within the picture plane.