Liminal Gallery Podcast host, Louise Fitzjohn, speaks with contemporary artist Damien Flood, who has artwork in our upcoming group exhibition 'Try a little...Tenderness' which opens on 4th February in our Margate-based Gallery. Damien Flood b. 1979, is an Irish artist based in Dublin.
His work is grounded in early writings on philosophy, theology, alchemy, and the natural sciences and explores the mutability of 'reality' and language.
Flood has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally including Dubai, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Knokke, Modena. Solo shows include: DIG, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 2022 and Shape of Things, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA, 2019.
He has been selected for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in 2008 and 2010. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary administered by the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 2015 was awarded the DLR Lexicon 2016 Commission. In 2017 Flood was awarded the Eigse Hotron Award. Damien Flood is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Ireland and Stephane Simoens, Belgium.
Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness.
A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth.
Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Flora Bradwell and Damien Flood whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments.
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https://www.liminal-gallery.com/try-a-little-tenderness
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With original music by Lorenzo Bonari.
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