Title: Sepulchre
Size: 80cm x 60cm
Medium: Etching
Bronagh Ni Dhonnghaile
Artist Status: Purchase
About This Work
This series of works were inspired by a visit to Pere Lachaise cemetery
in Paris, which houses the tombs of many significant artists and other
public figures and a house in County Tyrone where Bronagh found a cache
of old photographs of the owner who had died years before. These two sources
provided the somewhat sombre tone of the images which reflect the passage
of time and the mortality of mankind. Bronagh has used the strong dark
tones of the etcher's plate to capture the mood together with the
introduction of soft ground etching in muted colour to lighten the image
with hope for the future.
Artist Background
Bronagh joined the University of Ulster's Fine and Applied Art
course in September 2004 after a year of foundation study and is regarded
as one of the outstanding students of her year group. She is a particularly
gifted printmaker, already featured in the highly regarded Belfast Print
Workshops and though she favours etching, Bronagh has achieved some
excellent work in screenprinting, digital transfers and other traditional
printmaking processes, working to large scale as well as with smaller
images. Her work has been exhibited in the group exhibition 'The Artists
of the Future' at An Culturlann on the Falls Road in Belfast and the
selected Student Exhibitions of the University of Ulster for the past
three years.
- Other Works by this Artist
- The Chair
- Sepulchre II