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Sarah Dwyer: Penti-Menti
7 February – 17 March
Penti Menti is Sarah Dwyer’s first institutional exhibition in Ireland. Born in Cork, Dwyer has a significant international profile. The artist frequently combines drawing with painting, printmaking and sculpture, employing exuberant colour palettes and lively mark-making to depict semi-figurative and abstract imagery.
Taking cues from Surrealism, Cobra and Abstract Expressionism, her practice explores image and form through the iterative nature of storytelling and poetry. Dwyer’s dynamic compositions process her own surroundings and the everyday experience—while also indulging our desire for play.
The exhibition is titled after the Latin term for an alteration in painting, from the Italian word repentance. It speaks to her process of layering and removing paint, burying and excavating, digging into the experience of painting as it relates to both landscape and the unstable body.
The exhibition is a National Tour initiated by Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, and curated by Eamonn Maxwell. The exhibition continues its tour to Limerick City Gallery of Art later in the spring. A monograph will be published to accompany the exhibition and tour
This tour is supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Touring Award.
Image: Sarah Dwyer, Lumber Out, 2025, Oil and oil bar on linen (detail)
