Still Life

In 2011, Lismore Castle Arts presents Still Life curated by Polly Staple and featuring artists Gillian Carnegie, Anne Collier, Mark Leckey, Sherrie Levine, Seth Price and Richard Wright.

Still Life explores the status of images as objects. Artistic strategies represented in the exhibition included appropriation, repetition and serial production. Points of reference include the production of images influenced by new technologies and the relationship between painting, photography and the moving image.

The unique context of the gallery's location—a converted wing of a castle, set in extensive formal gardens—provided a further framing device for the exhibition's broad theme of contemporary arts' use and understanding of the historic genre of still life.

There are six artists participating in the exhibition: Gillian Carnegie, Anne Collier, Mark Leckey, Sherrie Levine, Seth Price and Richard Wright. Alongside existing works, several of the artists will make new work for the show including a site-specific installation by Wright.

A catalogue, designed by Studio Frith Kerr London, with commissioned texts by Polly Staple and Richard Birkett, will be published in May 2011 by Lismore Castle Arts to accompany the exhibition.

Events in support of the exhibition include a tour of the exhibition by Lismore Castle Arts Director (May 2011), Curator’s Talk (July 2011), and an artist’s led seminar (September 2011).