Erin Lawlor will present a national touring exhibition opening at Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda, Ireland, before moving to the Galway International Arts Festival in summer 2025, and concluding at The Source Arts Centre, Tipperary, in December 2025.
Erin Lawlor’s recent works explore more than ever before a sense of place. She has long embraced painting as a space of both projection and psychological construct, yet in concrete terms, working as she does horizontally and alla prima, the canvas itself becomes a ground, an immersive space of intensive labour. Each painting is a many-layered history ‘event’ in the becoming, but one which fundamentally requires an overall integrity in the final instance.
The title ‘divining’ refers to both a minute and essential geological reading, but also to an intuitive interpretation, and to notions of a (fantasised) ideal.
