2022
oil on linen
92 x 73 cm
€7,000
2022
oil on linen
92 x 73 cm
€7,000
Michael Francis Cartwright
2015
oil on linen
179 x 203 cm
Michael Francis Cartwright
2020
bronze
edition of 3
213 x 148 x 49 cm
€105,000
catalogue number MFCS78
My ‘Walking through the Universe’ series comes from laying on my back on dark nights and looking up into the Night Skies. Seeing all those stars, some are planets while many stars are massive constellations of stars. We are just a speck amongst the Milky Way dust. Amazingly, we act as if we are the centre of that Universe. During the day while we venture out from our little havens we cannot see this Universe of vastness, and then at night we return to our burrows and see nothing of the Night Sky; at best we look at it through flooding city lights or happen to see Venus, the Moon or perhaps Mars. We must respect where we are and what we are all travelling on. Stop, lay down on a dark night and take a walk through the Universe.
Ma série “Promenade dans l’univers” me vient du fait que je m’allonge sur le dos les nuits sombres et que je regarde le ciel nocturne. Je vois toutes ces étoiles, dont certaines sont des planètes et d’autres des constellations massives de milliers d’étoiles. Nous ne sommes qu’un grain de poussière dans la Voie lactée. Etonnamment, nous agissons comme si nous étions le centre de cet univers. Pendant la journée, alors que nous nous aventurons hors de nos petits havres, nous ne pouvons pas voir cet Univers immense, et puis la nuit, nous retournons dans nos terriers et ne voyons rien du ciel nocturne ; au mieux, nous le regardons à travers les lumières des villes inondées ou nous apercevons par hasard Vénus, la Lune ou Mars. Nous devons respecter l’endroit où nous sommes et ce sur quoi nous voyageons tous. Arrêtez-vous, allongez-vous par une nuit noire et faites une promenade dans l’Univers.
Michael Francis Cartwright
2020
bronze
edition of 3
163 x 148 x 87 cm
€130,000
catalogue number MFCS77
Michael-Francis Cartwright
2019
Marble & gold leaf
Statuario & Ordinario
78 x 35 x 35 cm
€22,000
catalogue number MFCS14
Statuario marble and gold leaf on a base of normal Carrara marble. The figure like a constellation, the gold a star, a sun, moves through the Universe.
Shona Nunan
2021
bronze
edition 1 of 8
200 x 79 x 23 cm
€102,000
catalogue number
Nunan’s latest series of Guardians have become warriors, perhaps for a time of greater vigilance. These warrior figures are the closest image to an early memory of travelling in the outback of Australia with her artist father and coming across caves that were guarded by three spirit guardians with their arms crossed and hands outstretched warding off intruders. The image has stayed with Nunan and the influence of the crossed arms have come up many times in the work, like a strong warning to respect the space. The cross appears now in the shield. These particular Guardians have a strongly defined influence of the sword in the torso of the male figure and the female figure with the shield has a spear like influence. Nunan is captivated by the sparseness of sword and shield and finds their almost 2 dimensional elongated forms part of her story of looking for the powerful essence in all things.
Shona Nunan
2020
pastel on paper
169 x 140 unframed
Shona Nunan
2021
bronze
edition 1 of 8
Michael Francis Cartwright
2021
oil on canvas
97 x 240 cm
Shona Nunan
2021
bronze
edition 1 of 8
157 x 46 x 43 cm