New exhibition at Limerick’s Ormston House to explore female body

A NEW exhibition exploring the female body will open this July in Limerick.
Sian Costello’s imminent solo exhibition, Hot Child, will open on Thursday, July 25 from 7 to 9pm at Ormston House.
In this show, featuring several large new works, Costello continues her exploration of representing the female body via performative self-portraiture.
Those already familiar with this artist’s works will note numerous key developments in the new paintings shown here. Crucially, we see a dissolution of the depicted subject via the presence of more negative space; recognisable representational details are married with gestural abstraction. Costello’s compositions are charged with a tangible jouissance, and she evidently takes much pleasure in producing them.

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Born in Roscommon in 1998, Costello graduated from Fine Art Painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2020 and has been exhibiting consistently since then.
Most of the works included in this exhibition have been produced while the artist was on residency at Malt AIR visual arts residency program in Ebeltoft, Denmark.