Anne Ryan
Secret Conversations from the Plot to Overthrow, 2020
Perspex cube, acrylic on card cutout
20x20x20cm
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Anne Ryan, Secret Conversations from the Plot to Overthrow, 2020
£ 2,250.00
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b. Limerick, Ireland; lives and works in London 1987-1988 Birmingham University, MA Fine Art Anne Ryan creates highly coloured, constructed paintings that focus on figures engaged in a variety of...
b. Limerick, Ireland; lives and works in London
1987-1988 Birmingham University, MA Fine Art
Anne Ryan creates highly coloured, constructed paintings that focus on figures engaged in a variety of activities. Her subjects dance, party, pose and generally indulge themselves in scenarios that draw on diverse sources from visual culture and the world around her.
Ryan’s paintings are made on card but leap out into the third dimension, propelled by the intoxication of a Dionysian feast. These women are related to the Maenads, women followers of Dionysus, whose ovation for the Greek god of wine, Euoī, was the title of Ryan’s recent exhibition Earthly Delites at Hastings Contemporary. “I love the freedom they give me. Suddenly you’re not tied to the four walls of a canvas”, the artist has said of her joyful subjects. Her Maenads, which translates to ‘women in the throes of frenzy’, are held in check by the Perspex case; nevertheless she sees them as “high on partying, women setting themselves free, letting go”. Her work for Cure3, Secret Conversations from the Plot to Overthrow is the perfect balance between painting and sculpture, movement and poise, all encapsulated with the Perspex cube.
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1987-1988 Birmingham University, MA Fine Art
Anne Ryan creates highly coloured, constructed paintings that focus on figures engaged in a variety of activities. Her subjects dance, party, pose and generally indulge themselves in scenarios that draw on diverse sources from visual culture and the world around her.
Ryan’s paintings are made on card but leap out into the third dimension, propelled by the intoxication of a Dionysian feast. These women are related to the Maenads, women followers of Dionysus, whose ovation for the Greek god of wine, Euoī, was the title of Ryan’s recent exhibition Earthly Delites at Hastings Contemporary. “I love the freedom they give me. Suddenly you’re not tied to the four walls of a canvas”, the artist has said of her joyful subjects. Her Maenads, which translates to ‘women in the throes of frenzy’, are held in check by the Perspex case; nevertheless she sees them as “high on partying, women setting themselves free, letting go”. Her work for Cure3, Secret Conversations from the Plot to Overthrow is the perfect balance between painting and sculpture, movement and poise, all encapsulated with the Perspex cube.
www.greengrassi.com
Portrait courtesy the Artist
Courtesy of the artist and greengrassi, London