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It’s Bastille Day today 🇫🇷 and we’re featuring Sharon Murphy’s photograph Cheval en Scène as our daily featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald.

Sharon describes the piece here:

‘Cheval en Scène forms part of my ongoing photographic series Mise en Abyme, developed during residencies in Paris. Photographed at the Musée des Arts Forains, the image depicts a carousel horse isolated within a theatrical darkness, illuminated as though suspended between performance and memory.

‘Drawing on the concept of mise en abyme — a recursive image within an image — the work explores illusion, repetition, and the unstable boundary between the fictive and the real. The riderless horse becomes both stage prop and psychic presence: poised in perpetual motion, caught between enchantment and stillness.’

Image: Sharon Murphy, Cheval en Scène. Photography, 60 x 74cm. Edition of 5 + 2 AP, 5 available. Image used courtesy of the artist.

Many thanks to everyone who turned out on a muggy Wednesday evening last week for Elaine Byrne ARHA’s Art Form Tour of the 196th Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, which focused on Photography.

We were also joined by some of the exhibiting artists who talked about their work, including: Stephen Turner; Amy O’Riordan; Ed Dunne; Sharon Murphy; Patryk Gizicki; and Anna Bekmansurova.

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Today’s featured works from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, are two sculptures showing side by side from Eileen Mac Donagh RHA and Eilís O’Connell RHA.

Both of these works are available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for more details.

Images: I. Eileen Mac Donagh RHA, Pinch Point 2. Stone, 20 x 10x 6cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
II. Eilís O’Connell RHA, Unearthed. Carrara marble, 11 x 36.8 x13cm. Edition of 3, 1 available. Image courtesy of the artist.