The official launch of Visions of an Unsettled Earth took place on the evening of Thursday, 18 May at The Hunt Museum. Chairperson of The Hunt Museum Board of Directors, Donncha O'Treasaigh provided opening remarks welcoming guests to the museum.
The special guest was Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints and Drawings at The National Gallery of Ireland. The three artists - Debbie Godsell, Fiona Kelly, and Sarah O'Flaherty - each spoke briefly about their pieces and practice. Finally, Jill Cousins, Director and CEO of The Hunt Museum gave closing remarks, commenting on how the exhibition fits into the museum's focus of sustainability for the year 2023. Local artists and educators from the Limerick School of Art and Design were in attendance, including Deirdre Power, Fiona Quill and Alan Keane.
- New exhibition displaying the work of three Irish Artists – Debbie Godsell, Fiona Kelly, and Sarah O’Flaherty – showing at the Hunt Museum 4 May – 14 July
- Featured Lens-based pieces, Sculptural pieces, Video
- Themes: human impact on the planet, the environment, concept of the Anthropocene, zero waste and repurposing material.
Visions of an Unsettled Earth explores ideas of temporality, transience and transformation within our current epoch, the Anthropocene. The exhibition brings together new and recent works made by artists Debbie Godsell, Fiona Kelly and Sarah O’Flaherty and positions humanistic interactions as a continuous collaboration and negotiation with the dirt beneath us. This will be the third evolving iteration of collaborative exhibition between Godsell, Kelly and O’Flaherty. Through the success of their last public showing, all three Artists work were acquisitioned by the Crawford Art Gallery & IMMA for Your National Collection 2021 and since displayed together in Botanica, The Art of Plants, curated by Michael Waldron, Crawford Art Gallery 2022
