Untitled, Oil on birch plywood. 38 h x 30 w cms

Untitled , oil chalk and pigment on fabriano paper stretched over board. 30h x 26 w cms.

 

 

“Narrative or material, or both; the paintings of Loretto Cooney though pictorial, foreground the fact these are paintings made of material and become objects. This describes as much a narrative of making as a narrative that can be unlocked within the images as meaning; both together. Each subject is defined by paint – a definition that is absolutely open-ended and yet completely there as material, to be touched and beyond touching. This is not meaning wrought through illustration – nothing can be taken as a given here, only found.”

– Andrew Wilson,  Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.

 

 

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