Cléa van der Grijn exhibits
Artist Cléa van der Grijn’s exhibition Jump opens at Mermaid Arts Centre on Saturday, September 28, running until November 3.
Since 2008, Cléa van der Grijn’s work and practice is about unravelling the complexities associated around the culture of death, reconstructed memory and time. Memories real or imagined. Dream.
Jump is a newly commissioned body of work about understanding the rational, social and emotional circumstances constructed around time and memory. The exhibition consists of a series of new paintings by Cléa as well as an ambitious film work written and directed by Cléa and created with collaborators; Joseph P. Hunt, Michael Cummins and Ciaran Carty.
A woman stands at the edge of a pier. She wilfully jumps. Slowly she falls through water where time catches her breath. What are the memories between the transitional period of jumping and hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. Alive not dead. What memories would be placed to validate existence. Memories to record. Real or perceived? Fact or fiction?
The exhibition is commissioned by Mermaid Arts Centre in partnership with five venues and funded through an Arts Council of Ireland Touring Awar. Cléa van der Grijn lives and works in Sligo. JOIN soprano Elva MacGowan as she sings an eclectic repertoire of folk, country, blues and jazz including songs made famous by Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Presley, and many more.
The performance will take place at Whale Theatre in Greystones on Sunday, September 30, at 4 p.m.
Elva, pictured above right, will be accompanied by 3 of Dublin’s finest musicians Bill Shanley (guitar), Dave Fleming (double bass) and Bill Blackmore (trumpet).
Elva hails from Youghal, County Cork and from her early beginnings studying piano, guitar and voice, she went on to study music in UCC and continued her studies in UL in music education. She is also a graduate of The Cork School of Music and the DIT Conservatory of Music, both specialising in vocal performance.
Elva moved to Dublin where she now resides and is endeavouring to carve out a career in singing. Although she has a background in classical training, she also fell in love with the folk, traditional, jazz and blues scene in Dublin. In 2016 Elva launched her debut EP of much loved jazz standards ‘Close Your Eyes’ in The National Concert Hall. Tickets are €10 whaletheatre.ie.