Mike Absalom - ‘The Peninsula’ - 15 May - 7 June 2008
Opening 14 May 6 til Late
Building on Irish artist Mike Absalom’s successful exhibition My Irish Eyes on Liverpool in 2007 at View Two, he returns in 2008 with The Peninsula.
In 2007 Mike spent a number of weeks visiting the remote Mullet Peninsula in the Barony of Erris, one of County Mayo’s last Irish speaking enclaves. The original purpose of the visit was to gain a working knowledge of gaeilge but he soon found himself in Black Sod, Aghleam and An Geata Mór giving puppet shows for the children and playing the harp for their parents.
The series of paintings The Peninsular is the fruit of his experiences on this strange, stormy and magical coast.
Mike returns again in October for the Liverpool Irish Festival to present paintings made in response to his engagement with the Irish community in Liverpool. Please check website for further details.
‘My Irish Eyes on Liverpool Again’ by Mike Absalom
Exhibition runs October Oct 3 - Nov 3 2007
Viewing Wed. Oct 3 2007 18-21.00
After a lifetime roaming the globe as a successful singer/songwriter, Mike Absalom returned to his roots in Ireland and has become a successful artist, painting the people and places of his family’s past.
After a lifetime roaming the globe as a successful singer/songwriter, Mike Absalom returned to his roots in Ireland and has become a successful artist, painting the people and places of his family’s past.
This year he set off from his studio in County Mayo on a pilgrimage to visit and paint some of the other places that once played a significant part in his life, to see how they had changed and to find out how he felt about them and himself forty years on.
Liverpool, on its 800th birthday, was one of these places and his journey has yielded stunning paintings of place and identity. Expressions of a past that remains, soaked into the stones, ready to remind of what once was, but also suggest what might be.
