​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 ‘emotional vibrations’ of spaces and in this case, Manorhamilton, Leitrim. The act of drawing is considered a way to intuitively document the emotional dimensions of everyday spaces and the resulting drawings are referred to ‘felt-maps’. 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. When we detached from nature, we also detach from ourselves. No matter where we find ourselves, we are emotional affected by it, even if we are not conscious of it. Where we are matters. because we are deeply affected by where we are - 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