In Dreams: Arno Kramer + Cecilia Bullo
7th September – 26th October
Official Opening: Saturday 7th September, 3pm
Arno Kramer works as a visual artist in The Netherlands and Ireland. He has been exhibiting in Ireland since 1995. He has shown at Green on Red Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art, The Model, Ballina Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, The Mermaid Arts Centre, Crawford Gallery and at the Cavanacor Gallery. In Northern Ireland his work has been exhibited at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Millennium Court Art Centre and Fenderensky Gallery. He is also a regular visitor to Ballinglen Arts Foundation where he has been in residence and held a masterclass in drawing. Recent exhibitions in Ireland include High winds move slowly with sculptor Henk Visch at The Model, Sligo (2017) and In Time at Limerick City Gallery of Art (2022).
Arno taught for 20 years at the AKI (Academy of the Visual Arts and Design) in Enschede, the Netherlands, and has been a guest teacher at art colleges in Ireland, Belgium, England, Scotland, and the USA. He publishes on visual arts and also writes poetry. He is currently the founder and first curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands (Kunstvereniging Diepenheim).
Cecilia Bullo (IRL/ITA) is a bicultural Dublin-based visual artist working primarily in sculpture and installation.
Her practice is research-based and informed by historical, mythological, psychoanalytic and ecofeminist theories, creating a vital conceptual framework for her physical work. In particular, she is interested in material cultures relating to rituals of healing and transformation, including iconography and artefacts linked to cultural traditions, urban shamanism, and ecofeminism.
She holds: a BA, Fine Art sculpture IADT, Dublin; a BFA, Brera Fine Art Academy, Milan (ITA); Erasmus, Academy of Fine Art, Athens (GR) and an MFA (2009) from NCAD, Dublin.
Solo shows include: Being haunted by the breezes, now how will you exist?, curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Gallagher Gallery, RHA, (2023), LEIGHEAS- LIMINALIS: antidotes for melancholic gestures, invited by Ruth Carroll, curated by Sarah Searsons, The Dock (2023).
Cecilia is a Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) alumni, receiving a Residential Studio Award from 2020- 2023 and is a recipient of numerous awards including; The Arts Council of Ireland (Visual Art Bursary 202, 2021, 2023, Agility Award 2022), DCC (2022), Art & Disability Ireland (2023, 2020) and Culture Ireland (2023, 2021, 2019).
Runs until Saturday 26th October. Admission free.
