Online viewing from Friday 23 April, 2021 and exhibition continues until 21 May, 2021.
All unsold works are available from our ONLINE SHOP.
Matthew Mitchell’s new works originate from his fascination with the geology of the Irish landscape in the Burren, Co. Clare where he resides, how we relate to it and what it tells us about our world.

Directed, filmed and edited by award winning filmmaker Kev L Smith, second drone operation by Conal Byrne and original music by Darragh Quinn. This film aspires to give a unique insight into a unique artist, Matthew Mitchell, working in a unique place. www.kevlsmith.com.
The work embodies the landscape through his unique process of incorporating the local clay or soil as a ‘ground’. He sources this material from caves, riverbeds and in the large coastline deposits laid down during the last ice age. This organic substance is crushed and processed over time to return it to its original form – a fine powder. Matthew’s working methods suggest the different time scales. In one, organic material from the Burren is used and is allowed to behave naturally on the surface of the painting and in the other, the application of enamel material is more controlled and deliberate. In each painting the relationship between past and present is shown in the interplay between the natural colours of the clays and soils taken from this Irish landscape, and the shifting reflective light of the inorganic enamel material.
His preoccupation with the geological past in the landscape and our present experience of the digital age is also played out in his paintings. As Matthew explains; “They explore how the physical geological landscape of the past relates to the unseen satellites, the fibre optic cables passing under our oceans, the information sphere of networks which orders our lives in new ways.” Each painting combines these two time related materials and examines how the physical and visual language of the past has evolved to that of the present.
Matthew Mitchell graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from NCAD in 2017. Since graduating he has won several awards including the NCAD studio Residency award and The Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award at the Burren College of Art. His work is in the State Collection, The Law Society of Ireland and collected privately and internationally.
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- Aes Esca III. Clay: material from Doolin and oil paint & enamel on board. Size: 33h x 46w cm. SOLD
- Age to Age II, Limestone marl, material fromKilmacreehy, Liscannor and enamel onboard. Size: 33h x 29w cm. SOLD
- Bog I, Material from a turf fire and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. €850
- Bog II. Material froma turf fire and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD
- Bollán. Material from Liscannor and Fanore on board. Size: 24h x 20w cm, SOLD
- Cloch I. Clays: material from Fanore and oil paintand enamel on board. Size: 52h x 45w cm. SOLD
- Cloch II. Clays:material from Fanore and oil paint and enamel on board. Size: 44h x 33w cm. SOLD.
- Cloch III. Clay:material from Clahane and Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 33h x 40w cm. SOLD
- Cloch IV. Clay: material from Clahane and Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 33h x 40w cm.SOLD.
- Croí No. 2 (Core), Clays: material from the Burren on board. Size: 76h x 67w cm. SOLD
- Croí No. 3 (Core), Clays:material from the Burren material from a turf fire and enamel on board. Size: 76h x 67w cm. SOLD
- Deposition I. Clay: Material from Fanore and Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD.
- Deposition II. Clay: Material from Clahane, Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD
- Dromchla (Surface), Material from Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 51h x 45w cm. SOLD
- Gaíon 2020. Material from Clahane, Liscannor, oil paint and enamel on board. Size: 33h x 45w cm. SOLD
- Gaíon Clahane No. 4, Material from Clahane, Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 35h x 30w cm. SOLD
- Gaíon - Kilmacreehy. Clay: material from Kilmacreehy and material from a turf fire and enamel on board. Size: 50h x 50w cm. €750
- Glyph Rua. Material from Clahane and Fanore and enamel on board. Size: 42h x 33w cm. SOLD.
- Glyph. Clay: Material from Liscannor and Corofin and enamel on board. Size: 76h x 67w cm. €1200
- Macalla. Material from Liscannor, and material from a turf and timber fire on board. 21h x 24w cm. €480
- Map. Clay material from Doolin and enamel on board. Size: 33h x 29w cm. SOLD
- Milestone I - Cloch mhíle. Clay: Material from Bishop’s Quarter and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD
- Milestone II - Cloch mhíle. Clay: Material from Clahane and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. €850
- Monumental Time 5. Clay: Material from Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD
- Ócar. Material from Clahane and enamel on board. Size: 100h x 90w cm, SOLD
- Rian (Trace). Material from Fanore on board. Size: 42h x 37w cm. SOLD
- Spéir - Sky. Limestone marl from Fanore, oil paint and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. SOLD
- Taifead (Record). Clay: material from Clahane and enamel on board. Size: 76h x 67w cm. €1200
- Teanga (Language) I. Clay: Material from Fanore and Liscannor, material from a turf fire and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. €850
- Teanga (Language) II. Clay: Material from Fanore and Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w cm. €850
- Teanga (Language) III. Clay: Material from Fanore and Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 60h x 54w. SOLD.
- Torann bán I. Clay: material from the Burren and enamel on board. 76h x 67w cm. SOLD.
- Ord domhanda nua (A New World Order). Material from Liscannor and enamel on board. Size: 100h x 90w cm. SOLD
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