Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023. Image credit: Jussi Tiainen

 

These fragments I have shored against my ruins, 14 December 2022 – 15 January 2023, tm•gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Cracks, crevices and cavities emerge in different forms in a new series of paintings by Irish artist Jane Hughes in her first solo exhibition at tm•gallery in Helsinki. The images suggest lunar craters, trace fossils, bacteria, bark, crusty lichen, rotting teeth, innards, and sticky cake frosting. Each painting has its lineage of stains, erasures, failures and resurrections. The surfaces are porous, with compositions dissolving and re-emerging. More info about the show on tm gallery website here

Gaineamh Slogach ( Quicksand. A fine sticky sand that can swallow you if the currents are suitable), 2022, 100 x 120cm, acrylic, sea salt, on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Melting ice-cream caps, 2022, 30 cm x 20cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Blue velvet, 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Fuaimeanna cois trá (The existence of otherworldly noises on the shore), 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
When the planets align, 2022, 80 cm x 90 cm, acrylic, marble dust on linen Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Liver worth, 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Agnes, 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Innards, 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Ballán (means a cup-shaped rock-hole said to have magical powers), 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
seismic shifts, 2022, 100 cm x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Lovers rock, 2022, 100 cm x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Tolladóirí Cloch (Goose barnacles - the word translates as the tunnelers of stone, for their ability to extract nutrients from rocks by eroding them), 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic, marble dust on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Uaigneas an chladaigh (The sense of loneliness on the shore, a haunting presence of people who lived and died long ago), 2022, 100 cm x 120 cm, acrylic, marble dust on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Building bridges, 2016/2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
multicoloured rivers, 2016/2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Tukdam, 2022, 120 cm x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Ceist an taibhse (A trick question to ask otherwordly beings encountered at sea or remote areas on land), 2022, 100 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Lunar cake, 2022, 120 cm x 100 cm, acrylic, marble dust on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Pink limestone, 2022, 20 cm x 30cm, acrylic on panel Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Devils glen, (diptych) 2022, right: 180 cm x 150 cm, left: 180cm x 150 cm, marble dust, acrylic on 2 canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Fragle rock, 2022, 80 cm x 90 cm, acrylic on linen Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Colour bomb, 2022, 120 cm x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Eelgrass, 2022, 40 cm x 40 cm, acrylic on canvas Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
Installation view, tm•galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 Image credit: Jussi Tiainen
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