Wandering Star, a solo show by Mark Joyce, 11 april - 15 may 2026, at the Green On Red Gallery.
In the final week of Mark Joyce's Wandering Star exhibition, on Wednesday, 13th May at 7:00 pm, composer Fergal Dowling and guitarist Shane Latimer presented a live musical event as a response to the artist's acrylic on raw linen paintings. This has been the second occasion composer Fergal Dowling has done so.
Wandering Star is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics, and also a nod to an artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting. Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression, with oblique reference to early human structures, manuscripts and notations, or, as the artist likes to say, ‘stuff holding stuff up’. From a rhythmic and mechanical foundation, a bending of the light, familiar, like the Rings of Saturn, or the passing lights on the nearby orbital motorway, errors accumulate, an entropic unspooling, fragmenting towards chaos and disorder.
- VAI ( Visual Artist Ireland )
