​Atmospheres: 1
​Drawing deCentered: Felicity Clear, Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh
Exhibition Residency 2023
Exhibition: Friday 24th Feb- 15th April 2023
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton

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O'Tooles experimental documentation materialises the non-representational aspects of our world by mapping the spatialised feelings of places, in this case, Manorhamilton, Leitrim. The act of drawing is considered a means of intuitively documenting the affective dimensions of lived experience with the resulting drawings are referred to affective cartography.

The drawings attempt to record something that is neither a thing nor  a quasi-thing but something more felt rather than thought. The aim is to address our relationship to the more than human world. No matter where we find ourselves, we are affected by it, even if we are not conscious of it. Where we are matters. It is in us and we are in it - "we are made of the same stuff" (Merleau-Ponty)

Exhibition Statement: 
Through diverse and expanded fields of drawing practices, Drawing deCentered explores Manorhamilton through a multi-perspective lens where the concept of Atmospheres is considered as 'Condition', 'Matter' and 'Affect'. Clear explores the micro local atmospheric conditions in Leitrim, O’Toole’s engages with atmospheres as spatialised feelings which register as ‘emotional vibrations through our felt bodily sense, and Walsh queries how we imagine and design spatial qualities for the city, countryside and wider landscape and the atmospheres they create.

Left to right: Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh