Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery is hosting "Stasis field," a solo exhibition by Kathy Prendergast featuring sculpture, works on paper, and installations. The show highlights Prendergast’s long-standing fascination with cartography, where she subverts traditional maps using materials like textile, chalk, stone, and hand-applied pigments. Key works include hand-painted volcanic maps and a three-meter-high painted branch, all created through the artist's signature methodical and repetitive hand-crafting processes.
This exhibition marks a significant return to Dublin for Prendergast, an artist who famously represented Ireland at the 1995 Venice Biennale. By transforming static aerial views and geological data into intimate, emotionally resonant objects, the show explores the intersection of human identity, borders, and the physical land. It reinforces Prendergast’s status as a pivotal figure in contemporary Irish art whose work bridges the gap between personal memory and universal geographical history.