SCATTER them about the gallery, dot them around the walls, even hang them from the ceiling, there is no escaping the meagreness of Martina Galvin's images in this show of mixed media work supposedly influenced by the writings of Copernicus.
Galvin's art brings together turf dust, buds, twigs, paint and paper and binds them in various manners with resins and varnishes. Sometimes the artist uses resin as a kind of mounting, encasing hand written paper in it before fixing it to the wall; sometimes, the same substance becomes a strange type of clear paint loaded with frail strands of vegetable matter.
The variety of modes of display used on often very similar pieces instils a degree of suspicion about the work. Copernicus - skin of the earth, a column of small, dark perspex squares, on which turf dust takes on the appearance of clusters and nebulae climbs the gallery wall, while Copernicus - skin of the earth III is made up of similar perspex squares.
While this assortment of hanging styles obviously gives those involved in putting up the show some more interesting than average problems to solve, it does little to help the work.
