Caoimhe DALTON / Hazel EGAN / Kate FAHEY / Suzanne WALSH
The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2
13th – 29th January 2022
Curated by Debi PAUL
Winner of Black Church Emerging Curator Award
The artists in Living Balance work with print in its widest definition. They look to the traditions of the process reaching to its earthed materials such as copper, stone and soil, weaving them along with their concepts. Caoimhe Dalton, Kate Fahey, Suzanne Walsh, and Hazel Egan‘s works investigate elements of ritual, pattern, voice, language and re-wilding.
The exhibition features a recorded audio: An encounter with Living Balance by writer, broadcaster and folklore enthusiast Manchán Magan.’
Works below for Living Balance by Suzanne Walsh.
Murmur 2 by Suzanne Walsh, digital print. 280cm height x 260cm width. Photo by Louis Haugh.
Detail of ‘Murmur 2’. Photo by Louis Haugh
The works selected for Living Balance by Suzanne Walsh include a large digital wall print, called ‘Murmur 2’ which is an edit from a script from a performance called ‘Murmur’, previously performed at the Hugh Lane Gallery, and Plugd records, both in 2019. The text takes comments from under videos posted online about starling murmurations and reconfigures them as a speculative futuristic musing on group activity and the mind.
There is also a riso print edit available as part of the show, which is a further extract of Murmur 2. If you would like to buy one, please get in contact.
The other works selected were video documentation of a performance of the vocal work ‘BirdBecomeBird’ from TENT Rotterdam in 2019, and a small video work called ‘True Answers of Things to Come’ from 2019, which is a video of a jackdaw raised by the artist during their work for a wildlife rescue.
Documentation of ‘BirdBecomeBird’ performance from TENT Rotterdam 2019 and small video of jackdaw ‘True Answers of Things to Come’. Photo by Louis Haugh.
Decaying video of ‘BirdBecomeBird’, photo by Louis Haugh.
True Answers of Things to Come, video. Image by Louis Haugh.
Riso print, printed at Black Church Print Studios as part of the exhibition, 100 prints. Available to purchase, 20 euros, please contact if interested to obtain one.
‘Susurration’, Riso on flavin, edition of 100.