Exhibition Concept/Overview
Liz Johnson’s art practice is project-based. Her recent work explores themes of transience and impermanence, and presence and memory.
In this series of landscape paintings, she approaches presence and memory from the periphery, as a space of fragility and quiet tension. Where boundaries soften and shift, and form is suggested rather than fixed. She revisits familiar landscapes to reflect on the subtle unease of being tethered to places that are continually in flux – echoing Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, where the landscape leaves one being “neither here nor there”.
This sense of being suspended in a moment that can’t be held reflects the Buddhist concept of impermanence, and of how all things arise and pass away. In these moments, the landscape becomes both presence and disappearance. Within these settings, memory exists as something both hidden and tangible — traces of what has been, are held quietly within.
A Sense of Place invites a moment of stillness and contemplation, to consider how places continue to shape us even as they change or disappear. Rather than resisting transformation, this work reflects on what it means to live alongside it; to accept change and the passing of time as fundamental parts of human experience.
To view more projects or get in touch with the artist:
https://www.lizjohnson.ie/
Date: Tue 31 Mar – Sun 13 Sep
Location: IMMA. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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Date: Sat 7 Nov – Fri 29 Jan 2027
Location: Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Date: Sat 7 Mar – Mon 31 Aug
Location: MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland
