Monday March 19th – Saturday March 24th 2012 The Gallery in Cork Street
The artistic duo Oliver Brady and Carmel Clark bring their enegetic and colourful canvases to The Gallery in Cork Street for a bold new show. This exhibition is a journey into colour and form as one large original piece explodes and fragments into many new autonomous works of art, each a new expression or reflection of the first piece. The artists explore the notion that from nothing, something waits to be born. It is as yet unmanifest however it contains the everything. The art mimics creation, evolution, oneness.
Brady and Clark seek to offer the viewer a contemplation of where we came from, of who and what we are. The art is created as a metaphor for that exploration, the connectedness of everything.
The works are a visual feast as an immersion into the world of paint. Colours and textures are at the fore as we are drawn in to the artists exuberant and magical world.
This will be Brady and Clark’s first exhibition in the U.K.
Background
Brady and Clark is a collaboration between two artists, Oliver Brady and Carmel Clark.
Oliver Brady was born in Drogheda, Ireland in 1956. He studied Art and Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, later working and studying with renowned Breton sculptor Yann Renard Goulet. Starting in the commercial world of art and design as a freelance sculptor, model maker and painter he worked on commissions from architects, creating original sculptures and other artworks for hotels and night club projects. In the nineties, Oliver set up a design and build company which would go on to be involved in some of the most prestigious nightclubs and hotels in Ireland. During these commercial years, spirituality began to feature strongly in his life and in 1998 he created an Art and Spiritual Healing Centre that was opened to the public by John Hurt.
Oliver continued to explore Art and Spirituality while working as a freelance Creative Consultant, and in 2004, he met Carmel.
Carmel Clark was born in London in 1962. She spent her early life surrounded by fashion editors, models, photograhers, hair and make up as she trained to be a fashion stylist in the heart of London’s West End. Moving to Paris at the age of 21, she left the salon environment and embraced the world of fashion, creating hairstyles for the pages of fashion magazines and catwalk shows. Carmel’s love of creativity began to spill over onto the canvas when she returned from South America in 1993 to live in London’s Soho. She threw herself into painting and drawing, first studying at St Martins and then at Kiad, Canterbury. She began to sell her work and held two solo exhibitions.
When Oliver and Carmel met they found that they shared the same passion and love for art and creative expression so began to experiment and creat art together and it was from this exploration that Brady and Clark evolved.
Brady and Clark’s first collaboration was a large art commission for a boutique hotel in Dublin, Ireland. On the back of that success, more commissions followed and the artists continued to evolve their vibrant and innovative style of work in projects both in England and abroad.
