FAMILY MATTERS
The dad PAT CONNOR, his daughter JOHANNA CONNOR, her husband MICHAEL QUANE RHA and their exhibition FAMILY MATTERS…
20th. August – 6th. September 2026
Red Hat
Ceramic
57.5 x 20 x 24cm (H x W x D)
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Photography by Johanna Connor © 2020
Photography by Johanna Connor © 2025
(The Dad) Pat Connor’s ceramic sculpture reveals a deftness of hand with the clay through a practiced ability to manipulate its physical properties, to his will, for more than 50 years. His figurative works are expressive and replete with emotional content as he seeks to address, in a uniquely subjective way, the complexity we find ourselves in, through the occasion of being human. Paintings and Drawings by Pat will also feature offering insights to the imagined world of origins for is sculpture.
MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER
CERAMIC WORK
MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD
Blue in Bweeng
Clutch Pencil on HP Waterford paper 300gms
Framed 92 x 92cm using AR70 glass
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Photography by Johanna Connor © 2026
Photography by Ros Kavanagh © 2024
( His Daughter ) Johanna Connor looks at the landscape. In her looking, she finds herself lost in a thicket of significant meaning, where the traces remain from the activity of people in their endeavours, where the friction of their lives upon its surface leave their marks on the landscape and the landscape of things: where the furrows drawn deep remain in the tilt of the soil, where the hollow in a horizon holds a story, where the scale expressed in the husbandry of the land reveals another scale of means, where the proportions chosen express an aesthetic which is personal, communal, economic or indeed global, where the strata reveals the architecture of social and cultural evolution, where we’re mistaken by our assumptions and caught in the wire of nostalgia, where the landscape simply has the indelible, although at times, the faintest, footprint of evidence impressed upon its surface
GINGERMAN-RELISH
30cm glass Dome ( BELL JAR 3_2012 )
Gingerbread-man cutter – 2006
Adele’s: Main St. Schull. P81 DX56, Ireland.
51° 31’ 36.912”N 9° 32’ 50.424”W
Gentlemans relish container - 1997
Motley: 67 Drury lane, London, WC2B 5SP, UK.
51° 30’ 48.204”N 0° 7’ 7.356”W
Phocine ( 2019 )
Kilkenny Limestone, Bronze pins and steel
30 x 30 x 27cm
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Photography by Johanna Connor © 2021
( Her Husband ) Michael Quane draws upon the surface of the limestone and Marble with a tungsten-carbide-tipped chisel until eventually the loose flabby boulder is drawn, ever tighter, by each pass of the chisel, into a deliberate form. His human and Animal subjects enquire subtly of attachment and belonging to each other, to idea and to the world around us.
FAMILY MATTERS
The dad PAT CONNOR, his daughter JOHANNA CONNOR, her husband MICHAEL QUANE RHA and their exhibition FAMILY MATTERS…
( And the exhibition ) FAMILY MATTERS is an exhibition of works of sculpture and drawing by a trio of artists; a dad, a daughter and a husband, because… within this particular conceptual thread of exhibitions at Cnoc Buí, focusing on families of artists, it is the family connections which have focal relevance. Questions will undoubtedly flow through this relevance to family connections whilst aesthetic and subjective meaning will flow perhaps with another kind of relevance altogether through the artworks.
20th. August – 6th. September 2026