Graham Reid and Ruth Le Gear
Graham Reid grew up in South Africa, studied architecture at Massachusetts College of Art and completed his undergrad in sculptural glass. After returning to his ancestral roots in Ireland, he designed and built Knockbeg Glass Studios where he taught and blew glass under the name Glóine Eíreann. He now teaches glassblowing at Leitrim Sculpture Centre and has a flameworking and metal studio in Castleore, Sligo. His glass sculptural work is primarily concerned with expressing and manifesting the universal forces that surround us but are often invisible. He also studied Music and Media Technologies at Trinity. His work has been exhibited in various locations from the Douglas Hyde Gallery to the Cairde Festival in Sligo.
Field 851
Arial Gaze
Ruth Le Gear’s work seeks to make visible the ephemeral and intangible fragments of life. It follows trails; it maps. She produces imagery in moving and still image, sound and installation, illustrating her investigation of phenomena such as water memory. Exploring unquantifiable substances and theories, she in turn uses experimental methodologies and intuitive processes, including those of homeopathy. Her work consists of documentation of her interventions in the landscape. She engages with the land and the landscape, creating a relationship with the essence of the place.
Le Gear (b.1985, Limerick) graduated from GMIT (IE) with a honors degree in Sculpture in 2007.
Upcoming residencies include SFAI Water Rights program with the Land Art Association of the American West and The Clipperton Project expedition to Antarctica
Previous residencies include CCA Laznia (2014) , Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2013), Arctic Circle (2012), Berlin (Culturia 2012), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (2011) Iceland (SIM, 2012/09) Cill Rialig, ( 2011) Tyrone Guthrie (2010) and Limerick City Gallery of Art (2008).
Previous Solo exhibitions include CCA Laznia Gdnask (2015) and a group shows Et si on s’était trompé ? at the Centre Culturel Irlandais., Paris. Contemporary Art at Tell | The University of St.Gallen | Switzerland. Polar Forces: universe of an iceberg in LSC (2013) and Cork Film Centre (2013), Water that Sleeps, Galway Arts Centre (2009) and group exhibitions in Ev+a (2008), Claremorris Open (2008) and Millennium Court Arts Centre (2012).
Polar Forces
Trace Nowy Port
