Youyi Visual

Hangzhou Public Library

The exhibition runs in Hangzhou until the 8th of November and then travels to the consulate in Shanghai from the 15th of November until the 6th of December.

Youyi is the visual art section of the celebration of 40 years of diplomatic relations between Ireland and China. It was an amazing event, and I was delighted to be asked to be part of it.

Special thanks to Therese Healy, the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai, Alison Meagher, Xiao and all the team there.
Thanks as well to Maurice Quillinan, Culture Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Exhibiting artists were Helen Blake, Tom Climent, Bernadette Doolan, Maurice Quillinan, Pauline Flynn, Robert Ryan, Abigail O’Brien, Donald Teskey, Una Sealy & Samuel Walsh.

The exhibition runs in Hangzhou until the 8th of November and then travels to the consulate in Shanghai from the 15th of November until the 6th of December.

Transmission

GOMA Gallery of Modern Art

11th July-24th AugustA solo exhibition of new paintings.

Transmission continues Tom Climent’s exploration of the borderline between abstraction and representation. This new collection of paintings is predominantly landscape in nature. It suggests a narative but never actually reveals what that might be. The paintings also investigate materiality and aesthetics. The layers and the mobility of the paint and textures become a witness to the thought process of their making. The exhibition comprises of 6 large paintings and several smaller ones.GOMA Gallery of Modern Art |  6 Lombard Street, Waterford, Ireland+353 (0) 51 582 633       gomawaterford@gmail.comGallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12.30-5.30(Closed Sundays, Mondays & Tuesdays )See  GOMA Gallery of Modern Art  for more information

The Land is Still Being Formed

The Land is Still Being Formed

Sternview Gallery

17th April-11th May

This exhibition responds to ideas of earth, ecology and the processes we as humans have set in place. Featuring work by Tom Climent, Fiona Kelly, Miriam O’Connor, Sarah O’Flaherty and Darn Torn.

Sternview Gallery | 19 Princes Street, Cork | Entrance through Nash 19 Restaurant

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Visible Reminders of Invisible Light

Visible Reminders of Invisible Light

The Hunt Museum

24th January – 24th of March

The exhibition consists of artists and writers responses to works from the Hunt Museum’s permanent collection. Artists from a wide variety of disciplines were invited to participate, bringing a diversity of ideas to their exploration of the exhibition theme, through their engagement with the collection. Seventeen contemporary artists were invited to create new work in response to both of these historic collections which has resulted in the creation of a rich and eclectic exhibition. Matisse once said that ‘creativity takes courage’ and many of their responses have produced unexpected insights which serve to demonstrate the reimagined wealth in the collection. The Hunt Museum is very excited to display these works side by side with their historic artefacts thus creating a series of challenging and exciting juxtapositions.

I chose a figure sculpture of Joachim and Anna, parents of Mary. Carved in wood, it dates from the fifteenth century.

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Voyager

Voyager

Sternview Gallery

6th December – 9th February

A solo exhibition of new paintings

Voyager is a selection of new paintings by Tom Climent. They continue his creation of imagined landscapes that move between visions of familiarity and new places of being. The appealing quality of geometric play supports his searching process of making, a seeking of new structures of feeling while simultaneously holding an understanding of what it is to be found. Climent’s characteristic sensitivity to colour merges with form. The paintings that comprise Voyager embrace an ideality, a move towards spaces of warmth and resilience in between representation and abstraction.

“These rainbow crags seem to have sprung from the artist’s imagination but feel real, unidentified places that appear ancient and new at once. Strong, inspirational painting from one of Ireland’s best abstractionists” Cristin Leach, The Sunday Times, February 2018

Sternview Gallery @Nash 19 | 19 Princes Street | Cork

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 7:30am – 4pm
Saturday 8:30am – 4pm and by appointment

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The Space Between

The Space Between

An exhibition featuring a selection of artworks the OPW art collections

Pearse Museum

St. Enda’s Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16

2nd November 2017 – 14th January 2018

Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday: 9.30am – 4pm | Sunday 10am-4pm
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Small Works

Small Works

Lavit Gallery

Katherine Boucher Beug, Rebecca Bradley, Tom Climent, Eamonn Harris, Dorothy Ledwith, Maureen O’ Connor and Dee Pieters

A group exhibition of small scaled works opens at The Lavit Gallery, Wandesford Quay, on Thursday November 1st.

1st November – 1st December

Lavit Gallery | Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork

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Aidan Dunne’s review of Aspect at Solomon Fine Art in The Irish Times | May 2018

Aidan Dunne | Review of Aspect | Solomon Fine Art | The Irish Times | May 2018

One of the works in Tom Climent’s exhibition Aspect is titled, perfectly, Magic Mountain, evoking Thomas Mann’s classic novel of ideas. The main protagonist’s seven years spent in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, high above the “flatlands”, opens up a world of infinite speculation and possibility, before an ominous  return to the conflict below. Mountains are the dominant motif in Climent’s paintings, which are built around the meeting of organic and geometric forms. The latter mostly comprise brightly coloured, geodesic dome-like constructions, angular peaks that seem to grow from or are smoothly incorporated into natural masses.

The idea of construction and bold colours encourage a playful, inventive reading of the imagery, as though we are looking at ideas in the form of building blocks. Climent manages to set up this framework without being too illustrative about it, so that he allows for space for the viewer’s imagination to dream or even soar like Mann’s Hans Cartorp when he arrives in the mountains. It’s Climent’s most successful synthesis of abstract and representational elements to date and is an important show for him.