Ann Marie’s Mapping the Semi-Gods to go on display
THE EXHIBITION Mapping the Semi-Gods, by Ann Marie Webb, will take place at Signal Arts Centre from Monday, February 18, until Sunday, March 3.
Through paint Ann Marie describes opposing actions that play against each other to describe space that both dislocates and locates. The landscape is used as a tool to explore a sense of belonging, she sees it not just as a geographical study but as a layered field of activity. Stratified by human presence, Ann Marie searches to find interactions that become a vital part of self-identity. What borders us, plus the boundaries we create can locate and also dislocate us. Our feelings of control become the focus of this exhibition.
Using painting, Ann Marie explores the act of creating spaces. Through the contrast of materials and the ways of mark making, she uses contradiction to form competing and compelling conversations.
This is the first of a two-part exhibition which will continue in the Mermaid Arts Centre on March 28.
Ann Marie Webb lives in Co. Wicklow with her family.
Her artwork is represented in the permanent collection of the OPW and in private collections throughout Europe and the US. Ann Marie was a founder member of Outpost Studios, Bray, and is a member of the artists collective RAFT. SHEEVAWN Youth Musical Theatre will perform Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical ‘Cats’ in Mermaid Arts Centre from Wednesday, February 20, until Saturday, February 23.
Juniors, inters and seniors will perform in the purr-fect mid-term show.
Tickets are €17 or it’s €60 for a family of four, available at mermaidartscentre.ie. Performances are at 7.30 p.m. each night.
Based on TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the show is set in a junkyard playground and is alive with feline characters including Rum Tum Tugger, Mr Mistoffelees, Macavity, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks.
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.