Tom Fox	13 August to 3rd September 2009
Hobbyhorse

 

Limerick Printmakers are delighted to present Hobbyhorse, an exhibition of new works by Tom Fox on Thursday the 13^th of August at 8pm. The exhibition will run until Thursday the 3^rd of September.   

Limerick Artist Tom Fox, presents us with a monochromatic catalogue of work that has been inspired by Peiro Di Cosimo’s ‘The Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs’ (1500-1515) which itself was based on Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Di Cosimo’s painting depicts unruly centaurs attacking the wedding feast of the King of the Lapiths, which leads to a chaotic scene of bloodshed and confusion. For Fox this represents the rational invaded by and accosted by, the ‘other’, the visceral and the instinctive.  The centaur, half human half animal symbolizes the creative symbiosis of opposites. Where instinct meets rational.

Fox’s own paintings seek out this ‘otherness’, the visceral and the instinctual. He is led more by his gut feeling than by the norm or expected. In these works the ‘other’ is relegated to a dystopian underworld. 

‘Will our night minds lie down with our logic?’ John Moriarty

Tom holds a BA Degree in Fine Art Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design (L.I.T.) Tom’s recent exhibitions include his first solo show ‘Ordo’ in the Normoyle Frawley Gallery, inclusion in ‘Inertia and Beyond’ at the Black Mariah Gallery, Cork, ‘Inscapes’ at the Thinkkcreative gallery, Limerick, ‘A Hybrid Account’ at the Bank of Ireland Art Centre, Dublin, Iontas Small Works Competition in Sligo and Quadrant at the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick .

All of the work shown will be available for sale on the opening night and throughout the exhibition. 

The exhibition will run until 3rd September 2009. The Gallery is open Monday to Friday 11am to 5.30pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm.

All are welcome. Admission is free.