Rachel Parry & Cormac Boydell

Drawings on paper and ceramics

1 April – 7 May 2023 opened by Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, former footballer, manager

and supporter of the arts

Rachel Parry and Cormac Boydell have been making art of a very high order for decades. Rachel is primarily known for her intricate and haunting assemblages of 'nature's debris’; Cormac for his unique ceramics which are often a development from his notebook sketches.

Rachel showed a series of large-scale drawings of the human senses inspired by a British Museum exhibition 'Garden and Cosmos’ which featured the Indian Nath Charit folio and incorporating 19th-century European medical diagrams. Cormac a selection of his many travel notebooks to browse through, some framed drawings, and black-on-black drawings on ceramics.

Rachel Parry, detail from Smell, a drawing from 'Cosmic Oceans', graphite and pastel pencils on rice paper,

73 x 153 cm, 2016

Cormac Boydell, Black on black, pigments and clay, 22 x 22 cm, 2023. One of 8, variable, €350

The show was opened by Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, former footballer, manager and supporter of the arts. To the assembled crowd (70+) he paraphrased Socrates: 'Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, involve me and I will understand', then asked for questions from the floor: https://youtu.be/h3FnV7GZu_U. Rachel and Cormac explained their working methods with grace, humour and humility. Opening photographs by Con Kelleher