{"id":14500,"date":"2017-07-03T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2017-07-03T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:55:37","slug":"trio-of-exhibitions-launch-at-the-mac-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/07\/trio-of-exhibitions-launch-at-the-mac-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Exhibitions Launch at the MAC, Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Rhodes: Survey, <\/em>Curated by Andrew Mummery<\/h1>\n

Dougal McKenzie: A Dream and an Argument<\/h1>\n

Bill Saunders: Side Steps These Ferried Measures Rise<\/h1>\n

30 June \u2013 8 October<\/h1>\n

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The MAC, Belfast is delighted to present three major solo exhibitions by three significant contemporary artists: two of whom are Belfast based \u2014 the painter Dougal McKenzie<\/strong> and sculptor Bill Saunders<\/strong> \u2014 with the third exhibition by one of Britain\u2019s leading painters, Carol Rhodes<\/strong>, who lives and works in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Hugh Mulholland, Senior Curator at the MAC said: \u201cWhilst these three artists have myriad starting points for their work, there is something that unities them all; that being a strong sense of \u2018place\u2019, whether this is the urban and industrial landscapes of Rhodes, or the emotional and historical attachment to Edinburgh in McKenzie\u2019s work, or Saunders\u2019 romantic but practical dependence and musings on the studio environment. We are extremely excited to be presenting this trio of exhibitions here at the MAC and we are confident that visitors will find lots to interest them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Carol Rhodes\u2019<\/strong> beautiful small-scale landscape paintings depict the interaction of natural geography and human intervention, placing the viewer on or near the edge of urban environments, seen from an aerial viewpoint, eerily distant from the world below.<\/p>\n

Dougal McKenzie\u2019s<\/strong> recent dreamlike painted scenes bring together key elements of the artist\u2019s practice and thinking: an interest in history and storytelling through images and an investigation into whether it is possible to represent these as \u2018memory\u2019 in painting.<\/p>\n

And finally, the work of Bill Saunders<\/strong> considers the very site where artwork is made \u2014 the profound \u201cthinking space\u201d that is the studio \u2014 as a source of inspiration for his work, presenting sculptural assemblages and works on paper that record, reconstruct, or otherwise invoke the place of artistic production.<\/p>\n

The new exhibitions will open Friday 30 June in the Sunken, Tall and Upper Galleries at the MAC. Visitors will be welcomed daily from 10am-7pm and admission is free.\u00a0 For further information on the exhibitions visit themaclive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol Rhodes: Survey, Curated by Andrew Mummery Dougal McKenzie: A Dream and an Argument Bill Saunders: Side Steps These Ferried Measures Rise 30 June \u2013 8 October The MAC, Belfast is delighted to present three major solo exhibitions by three significant contemporary artists: two of whom are Belfast based \u2014 the painter Dougal McKenzie and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14503,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions\/14503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}