Object and Image
A Dialogue Between Dimensions
6 November - 17 December 2026
Oliver Sears Gallery is pleased to present Object and Image - A Dialogue between Dimensions, as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend brought to you by the Contemporary Art Gallery Association.
Curated by Oliver Sears, the exhibition comprises ten pairs of objects and images, brought together to provoke dialogue.
Having exhibited makers, sculptors, painters and photographers for more than three decades, the gallery has regularly launched exhibitions that are multi-dimensional. Object and Image asks the viewer to consider how art influences itself by deliberation or accident.
Exhibiting Artists
Amelia Stein - Su Xianzhong
Artist's Mannequin - Oliver Clegg
Conor Fallon - Joe Hogan
Mandy Cheng - David Hockney
Jenna Gribbon - Liam Flynn
Hynek Martinec - Jason Ellis,
Gareth Neale - Giorgio Morandi
Mark Fairnington - Sasha Sykes
Teodora Axente - Alan Meredith,
Florian Slotowa - Bruce McLean
Notes on Object and Image
by Brian Kennedy - Curator - Kennedy Ting
“What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.”
Chuck Close
It is this sense of looking that permeates this exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery. Artists, whatever their medium, ask us to spend time looking at what they themselves have spent time observing, considering and capturing. Whether through paint, pencil, lens or the making of an object, their work offers us an opportunity to see something of the world through their eyes.
The potter, the turner and the carver create objects that occupy our spaces, responding to light, shadow and the passage of time. These same objects may subsequently become the subjects of paintings or photographs, transformed once again through another artist's act of looking. What exists in three dimensions becomes two, yet each interpretation offers another way of seeing.
We are constantly invited to reflect on life, and sometimes death, through the things that have made an artist stop in their tracks. Something that suddenly demanded their attention, that compelled them to spend time looking, seeing and capturing. From that moment of observation comes something new, something that we in turn can see, feel or touch.
The Still Life and the Natura Morta seem to bookend this contemplation: one suggesting the quiet presence of things, the other reminding us of their transience. The artist's task is to create. Ours is to look, to reflect, to understand.
Leaves II, Kyoto Bookshop Digital Archive Print, Bamboo paper 59.4 x 42 cm Edition of 10 €3000
Dehua porcelain, Brick 37 x 27 x 36 cm 2021 €18,000
Artist’s Wooden Mannequin Paris, 19th Century Property of Gaston Jobbe Duval 41 cm NFS
Silver Mickey Oil on dismantled explosive crates 88 × 56 cm 2019 €3,000
Still Life II Oil on canvas 25.5 x 19 cm 1989
Nest Heather 60 cm €1,400
OM Vase ‘Movement’ Porcelain 15 x 12.5 x 7 cm 2022 €280
21st April, Yellow Flowers In A Small Milk Churn iPad painting printed on paper 88.9 x 63.5 cm Ed 30/50 2021 POA
Summer Forfeit Acrylic on Paper 30 x 23 cm 2013 €20,000
Ash vessel 19 x 19 x 24 cm 2012 €4,000
Gareth Neal Twisted Vessel Sand H 40cm €5,000
Natura Morta Pencil on paper 23.8 x 32.8 cm 1960 €50,000
Brussels Oil on canvas 40 x 56 cm 2016 €16,000
Momento Mori Connemara Marble 15 x 18 x 12 cm 2022 NFS
King Birds of Paradise Oil on panel 40 x 50 cm 2005 €10,000
Circular Blackbird’s Nest Blackbird’s nest, resin 11.8 x 5.5 cm 2025 €4,000