About
UV Arts presents a two person exhibition of new and recent paintings and drawings by Declan McGonagle and Malachy McGonagle, which will run from 21 June to 26 July, open to the public from 12 pm to 5pm, Wednesday to Saturday.
Both artists have had careers in senior positions in Art education and in curating, and both originally studied Fine Art at the Belfast College of Art, from which they graduated in the 1970s.
They have also had work included in exhibitions at different times throughout their careers.
This is an opportunity to see their contrasting bodies of work, each with distinct starting points in terms of subject matter and creative approaches.
Malachy McGonagle's paintings are based on a visual analysis of landscape imagery, which is then manipulated and transformed through a painterly process which goes beyond conventional representation. The artist's intention is to develop a personal, poetic interpretation of the source imagery.
Declan McGonagle's figurative drawings are based on collaged images from mass media which reflect the stressed situation of the contemporary world, locally and further afield, to create a sense of an incomplete narrative, which the viewer is invited to resolve.
