Frequency: Padraig Timoney, Mark Garry and Hayley Tompkins at the Hugh Lane Gallery

If you're at a loose end today, try to get over to Hugh Lane. There's a number of things going on including an installation by African artist Yinka Shonibare commissioned by the gallery to do a piece based on Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels. The result is 'Egg Fight'. Pop along and see what you think.

Upstairs, you'll find Frequency. Here's the blurb:
Anachronistic in a secular society where almost every object has a defined function and end use, the works of artists Mark Garry, Pádraig Timoney and Hayley Tompkins expose and explore possibilities of contingency and transformation.

The over saturation of information we receive in our hypermodern, post-global era continues to expand and accelerate. As witnessed in the fashions of the entertainment industry, the ever widening and rationalising sphere of technology results in the solidification and stagnation of our avenues of perception.

Frequency raises questions of ethics and value that emerges in the work of these artists and their relationship to aesthetics. It encourages a reappraisal of the established views of reality and provide us with points of departure for alternative frameworks with which we may rethink our perceived knowledge of the world.

I particularly liked this piece, Untitled by Mark Garry and the accompanying piece which I can't find a photo of on the internet but it's a large-scale white steel model of a crashed paper aeroplane. It looks simple but very impressive.



More colourful work from this artist:



Finish up with a visit to Francis Bacon's Studio (born in my hometown of Kilcullen, Co. Kildare actuallement) and you'll have had a day of culture made all the more wholesome 'cos of the Irish influence and just in time for Paddy's day.