Cecily Brennan:
PRESSURE
In her decades long career, Cecily Brennan has explored themes of physical and psychological pressure, creating works in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and screen media that explore the vulnerability and perseverance of the human condition.
This major survey exhibition presents new work by the artist including the gallery premiere of the short film The Devil’s Pool and photographs from her ongoing Six Men project, alongside a selection of earlier pieces that also investigate the connections between mind and body, mental and material forces.
Brennan's compelling film work ranges in tempo from the fierce blast of manual experimentation expressed in the steam power reaction of Hero’s Engine to the achingly slow bleed of black fluid in Melancholia that gradually seeps out from a rectangular white box that contains a prone female nude.
The works in this exhibition invite us to consider these and other explosive moments in close proximity and provide compelling insight and a tender reckoning with the visible and invisible pressures that shape modern existence.
Download exhibition texts
Cecily Brennan Pressure / Exhibition Texts (pdf)
PRESSURE is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.
