Michael Canning
°1971, Limerick, Ireland.
Lives and works in County Limerick.
Michael Canning’s work addresses the relationships between imagery and its meanings, representation and formalist abstraction, matter and its transformations, history, memory and fact.
Concerned not merely with the appearance of the landscape but with the fullness of his experience within that landscape and its histories, the landscape’s past, and his own, become, by degrees, interwoven, separated, and re-integrated through the various studio activities employed.
While isolated in many respects from the centres of national, European and world events his work is not disconnected from such matters. Titles of works often refer to the histories of coloniality, science, music, mathematics, warfare and politics.
The whole world, and human discourse, exists on a hillside in the south-west of Ireland.
Selected exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
2023, The Deeper Air, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London (UK)
2020, Dust Secrets, and Drawings for Photography, Waterhouse & Dodd, London (UK)
2018, Your Cyclical Natures, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin (IE)
2017, Matter Motion Minutes, Waterhouse & Dodd, London (UK)
2016, The Respectful Distance, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Group Exhibitions
2024, In other Worlds, Verduyn Gallery, Moregem (BE)
2023, States of Being (Duo with Mette Homar), Reiter Galleries, Leipzig (DE)
2023, Sanctuary Selects, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (UK)
2023, Natural Surroundings, Verduyn Gallery, Moregem (BE)
2022, Parklife, The Glucksman, Cork (IE)
2021, Herbal Remedies: Michael Canning, Joanna Kirk, Michael Landy, William Wright, Lyndsey Ingram, Lyndsey Ingram, London (UK)
2021, Stoney Road Press: 20 Years – A Survey, Ballinglen Museum of Art, County Mayo (IE)
2021, Another Place Landscapes since 1958, Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia (US)
2020, Nature Observed, Lyndsey Ingram, London (UK)
2020, Great Small Works, Stephane Simoens Fine Art, Knokke (BE)