Martin Gale Retrospective

The 60 painting Martin Gale retrospective at the Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast is all about rural Ireland. These tense, expectant, hyper-realism images are not idyllic picture postcard Irish images. Their surreal quality stems largely from the isolation of his figures in the landscape and the uncertainty surrounding their activities.

The art critic Aidan Dunne: "The mystery of a single moment that contains a bewildering wealth of impressions. The mystery of an action caught out of context and left undefined and ambiguous." Ends 6th of March 2005.
Irish Art