126 Artist-Run Gallery Galway, Ireland 126 Artist-Run Gallery, 15 St Bridget’s Place, Woodquay, H91 NN29 Galway, Ireland contactg126@gmail.com | www.126gallery.com
Eleanor McCaughey is an Irish artist. Recent exhibitions include ‘Vignettes’, Richard Heller Gallery, LA, USA; ‘Oddly Accurate Things’, 126 Gallery, Galway; ‘BEDECK’, Platform Arts, Belfast and ‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed’, The Complex, Dublin. Eleanor McCaughey’s work engages with painting as an amalgamation of still life, portraiture and sculpture. The body of work for recent shows contemplates impenetrable forces shaping our society, from the ideological to the technological. McCaughey has been awarded the artists bursary from Fingal County Council 2019 and she was a recipient of The Arts Council Ireland, Next Generation Award, 2018. 126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios is a not for profit voluntary organisation in Galway City, Ireland. 126 is dedicated to supporting artists through creative opportunities as well as financial, professional and social support, and studio spaces.
Eleanor McCaughey, ‘There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed’, installation, Pallas Projects, Ireland, 2017, photo: Steven Maybury Eleanor McCaughey, ‘Oddly Accurate Things’, installation, 126 Gallery, Ireland, 2019 Eleanor McCaughey, ‘Tinfoil figure’, oil on panel, 80 x 60 cm, 2017, photo: Steven Maybury Eleanor McCaughey, ‘Terror of a Tornado’, oil on canvas, 24 x 19 cm, 2019 Eleanor McCaughey, ‘Like Me’, installation, The Dock, 2018, photo: Steven Maybury
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