Paraphernalia 1 by Judy Carroll Deeley

Judy Carroll Deeley’s paintings are concerned with illuminating the strange or mysterious qualities that haunt everyday objects. In Paraphernalia 1 the source of her work is a number of gifts of kitchen implements she received for her wedding but never used. Now largely rusting or otherwise discoloured or dilapidated, the act and fact of painting these objects is her way of ‘reclaiming’ them and acknowledging the temperament she feels pertains to them on taking a fresh, long-delayed look.

Judy Carroll Deeley is a professional artist and has a BA Hons. Fine Art (Painting) from NCAD, 2008, and an MA Hons. Visual Art Practices from IADT, 2011. Her fourth solo exhibition, Paraphernalia 1, opens in deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove, Blackrock, Co. Dublin on Tuesday 26st March 2019. She has participated in many group shows including ‘Arrival’ in the dlrLexicon Gallery 2017/18 curated by Gemma Tipton, and the Dunamaise Open 2017/18 curated by Patricia McKenna and Claire Behan. Earlier group shows include the Rua Red Winter Open 2014/15 where she won The People’s Choice Award, and The Claremorris Open 2009. She was awarded a Belmont Mill Residency in 2012 and a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2015. A fifth solo show takes in 2020 in South Tipperary Arts Centre to be curated by Carissa Farrell and a sixth in the Custom House Quay Studios in February/March 2020. See Essay on Paraphernalia 1 by Dr Maebh O’Regan for the essay by Maebh O’Regan on Judy’s work.