The Engine Room Gallery welcomed Ben Groves and Susanna McConville for an exhibition during May 2014.
Ben Groves was born in South Yorkshire and studied
Fine Art at the University of Ulster. He completed a residency at the
University and has exhibited widely throughout Northern Ireland.
Groves's practice concerns themes around repetition and familiarity. He
uses a range of media from paint, video, photography, dioramas,
installation, text and sound and draws on an expansive repository of
imagery, such as television and film, appropriating material which, for
him has a certain resonance.
Susanna McConville was born in
Newtownards and studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster, where she
was awarded the Laura Irvine Memorial Prize for Painting and
Experimentation in Colour. She has since completed a residency at the
University and has exhibited her work throughout Northern Ireland.
She
paints 'stories' about her life, faith and doubt by combining childish
motifs with painterly sophistication and considers her painting to be
abstract narratives.
The exhibition continues until Saturday 31st May 2014.
