Visitors to Eithne Jordan: Tableau at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane must first pass through the front hall of Charlemont House, the Gallery’s home on Parnell Square.
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Relocating to France brought a change in focus for Eithne Jordan, who tells Brian Mcavera, ‘I had begun to feel that I was painting myself into an alley’ ahead of her exhibition at Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane in 2017.
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With a great desire to be a flâneur (urban explorer), Walter Benjamin wrote passionately of the literary type who wandered the streets of nineteenth century Paris, looking and listening intently to the comings and goings of civilisation.
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Eithne Jordan, whose new paintings of Dublin are to be exhibited in November at the RHA, lives in France forsome monthseach yearatMontpeyroux, a village of the Languedoc. Three converging streets, each following its own wandering underground watercourse, decided Montpeyroux’s loose, strung-out form. Where they meet is the marketplace and a wine bar, the Terrace de Mimosa. The village houses, dating for the most part from the early 17thand 18thcenturies, are tightly terraced, each with its own internal well. Though all were designed to have cool cellars and dry lofts and living quarters principally on the first floor, they come in a variety of internal arrangements, many times revised over the centuries. Most are modest in scale with a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen; but packed in among these narrow houses are a few that have more spacious proportions, with rich internal plasterwork or perhaps an ornate balcony. These appear, long ago, to have combined the family home, workshop and storerooms of merchants or larger landholders.
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