CHAOS/ ORDER, dlr Open Exhibition, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, 23 June – 3 Sept 2023

Claire Halpin with curator Ann Mulrooney

Chaos/Order – dlr Open Exhibition 2023

Friday 23 June to Sunday 3 September
Municipal Gallery dlr LexIcon

Selected and curated by Ann Mulrooney
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present the upcoming dlr Open Exhibition of visual art by artists who have studied in, are originally from, or are living or working in the County. The work was selected and curated by Ann Mulrooney of Cartoon Saloon after an open-submission process.

“The world is often a chaotic place. As humans we are built to be sensory receivers, retrospectively filtering the chaos to create pattern and meaning. But artists do it a little differently – maybe they spend longer in the hinterland between order and chaos, or maybe their filters are broader and more open to the unexpected…to quote Nietzsche, “one must face chaos to give birth to a star”.
That’s what I’m interested in exploring in this open submission – order, chaos, how we create pattern and meaning from it all and what we learn about ourselves in doing so.”
Ann Mulrooney, 2023.

Delighted to have my work Theatre Shelter Mariupol selected for this exhibition, and honoured to be in a great line up of artists. The exhibition is beautifully curated by Ann Mulrooney – describing the curatorial approach as a U bend of happiness and works grouped in different themes or senses within that…so my painting is fittingly in the apocalyptic section.