Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick 2016-17
An exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based artist Stephen Lawlor at the Bourn Vincent Gallery at the University of Limerick from November 25th 2016 until January 5th 2017.
The title comes from WB Yeats’ poem The Second Coming and is a reference to imagery from the collective human memory. This exhibition is a subtle exploration of the iconography of western painting and it’s subliminal position within that memory.
All of us who have an interest in how painting organically grew and changed from the early 14th century until the modern period will feel a connectedness to these paintings. They wander emotionally through layers of classical composition and present a hauntingly hybrid vision that echoes in the mind and work more and more on the senses the longer they are viewed.