It Might Be Hope…Who Can Tell? – A Solo Exhibition by Emma Berkery
16 March – 13 April, 2024
All unsold works will be available from our ONLINE SHOP.
An exhibition of new paintings by artist Emma Berkery exploring the psychology of hope and its role in our will to live. Inspired by her father’s eternal optimism, the artist investigates the meaning and impact of hope in the context of our increasingly tumultuous world.
Berkery’s arts practice is rooted in, and frequently references, the art historical movements of Colour-Field and Abstract Expressionism. The combined influence of these two movements results in a unique style of abstraction, which the artist uses as the vehicle to process, repackage and reflect back to the viewer her experience of the world. Resisting singular interpretation, the paintings act as conversations and explorations of the materiality of paint with powerfully evocative colour combinations. For the viewer, they both depict and create experiences. Berkery paints with a process led methodology, incorporating a symbolic palette with fluid organic forms, collocated with conscious and subconscious structure and gesture.
Berkery’s gestural approach to mark-making with its texture, movement and depth is mixed with areas of close to flat single colour, evoking emotional landscapes and creating an artistic language both abstract and unique.
Based in Belfast since 2004, Emma Berkery completed her Masters in painting in 2006 with Ulster University. Since then she has been immersed in the arts sector in Northern Ireland working as a practicing artist, creative consultant, evaluator and educator. Berkery currently holds a long-term associate artist residency with Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, an arts centre in West Belfast, and is represented by SO Fine Art Editions in Dublin, and The Nicholas Gallery in Belfast. She exhibits regularly throughout Ireland with recent solo exhibitions in 2022 and 2021 in Belfast and is the recipient of several Arts Council of Northern Ireland Funding Awards.
Click on the thumbnails below to see full image of the works.
Please contact the gallery or see our ONLINE SHOP to purchase.
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- Making Space to Soar, Oil on canvas, 122h x 122w cm,SOLD
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- Matisse, the Snail & the Meadow (1), Oil on canvas, 122h x 122w cm, €3,500
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- Hide & Seek, Oil on canvas, 122h x 122w cm, SOLD
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- Have Courage (You are not alone), Oil on canvas, 91.5h x 91.5w cm, €2,750
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- Reflect and Understand, Oil on canvas, 91.5h x 91.5w cm, €2,750
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- Abstract Hope, Oil on board, 40h x 80w cm, €1,795 (framed)
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- Breaking Beyond (3), Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, €950 (framed)
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- Nurture, Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, €950 (framed)
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- Meadow, Oil on board, 25h x 25w cm, €550 (framed)
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- Rhythm, Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, SOLD.
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- Surface, Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, SOLD.
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- The Day I Met Mitchell, Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, SOLD.
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- Unrest, Oil on board, 40h x 40w cm, SOLD.
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- Always Breaking Beyond Somewhere 122x122cm Oil on canvas €3,500
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- Meadow (2), Oil on board, 25x25 cm, €550 (framed)
