A Place of Care – Lea Farrell

9th January 2025 – 2nd February 2025

The Place of Care

This series of gestures reflects daily family life as the ‘new domestic’ from the perspective of the neglected everyday routine during the distractive digital age.

The routines and familiarities of home life like eating breakfast in the morning, playing, and getting ready for school, hide a special sense of bond and connectivity shared amongst family members. Through repetition, this bond turns into a sense of security and a feeling of belonging. Care and belonging can become overlooked while our collective focus shifts into a visual-feedback-based daily life. This can result in a break in connection and a restructuring in the hierarchy of familiar behavior patterns.

This exhibition aims to focus on the overlooked elements of the domestic sphere that are silent participants in the routines of family life. The gestures illustrate the repetitive practice of the family mundane while it aims to re-establish connection among members.

’YOU ARE INVITED! Please join us this Sunday 26 January from 12-2pm for an afternoon reception with refreshments to celebrate two exhibitions open at CHG+S, to hear from the artists and with introductory remarks for Lea Farrell by Geraldine O’Reilly.

Wrap: Fragile Memory – Nuala O’Sullivan

9th January 2025 – 2nd February 2025

Nuala O’Sullivan is a Limerick based artist. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art (Painting) from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2006 before completing a Fine Art Masters Degree in 2013.

O’Sullivan’s work uses both photography and painting to explore how the past influences the stories we construct to make sense of the present. Alongside this the aesthetic and culture of the 1950s have strong visual resonances for her.

She has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at Limerick Museum, Ballina Art Centre, Co Mayo; The Church Gallery, LSAD; Draiocht, Dublin; Signal Arts Centre, Bray; and Enniskillen Arts Festival. Selected work was included in Annual Exhibitions at Eigse, Carlow, the RUA Show, Belfast and the RHA Dublin.

Group exhibitions include ‘Person/Presence/Perception touring exhibition with the OPW 2023, GOMA Waterford Annual Exhibition 2022, Known Unknowns’ 3 person show LCGA; ‘Visions of Now’ LCGA; ‘Personal Selection’ at LSAD Limerick; ‘Essays from the House of Memory’, Ormston House Limerick; ‘RDS Student Awards Exhibition’, Dublin. She exhibited in Quimper France in 2012 and in 2014 showed work in the New York Foundation for the Arts in New York with the idir group.
Collections include Northern Trust, UL, Roadbridge, Limerick County Council, Laois County Council, LIT, and private collections.

’YOU ARE INVITED! Please join us this Sunday 26 January from 12-2pm for an afternoon reception with refreshments to celebrate two exhibitions open at CHG+S, to hear from the artists and with introductory remarks for Lea Farrell by Geraldine O’Reilly.