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Eye of the NeedlePreview Friday 6 may 6- 7.30
Exhibition Dates 6 May to 4 June 2005
Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays by appointment only.
To arrange a viewing time and receive directions call 0879572232 / 087 9677394
Pallas Heights 30 Sean Tracey House Buckingham Street Dublin 1

Pallas Heights is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition 'Eye of the
Needle' by the Irish artist George Bolster, which will take place at the
gallery from 6th May until 4th June 2005.

George Bolster examines the representation of religious subjects through a
wide range of media, including video, drawing, sculpture and installation.
He questions the accepted narrative and conventions presented in art history
with the introduction of contemporary elements such as hi-fi headphones,
corporate logos and gothic tattoos.

The exhibition at Palais Heights will include an installation of two wall
sized drawings of the crucified Christ and St Teresa of Avila who appears to
receive the stigmata of figure of Christ in the form red threads that span
the room. In the video projection 'Post Life Pre Life, (The Washing The
Body)' the artist appears as the naked figure of Christ as depicted in the
painting 'The Deposition of Christ in the Tomb' by Holbein majestically
floating down to the base of his coffin.

George Bolster was recently included in EV+A 2005 selected by Dan Cameron
and his work is currently on tour in the exhibition Multiplicity (Fota
House, Cork; Context Gallery, Derry; Roscommon Art Centre; and Market House
Gallery, Monaghan). He was born in Cork in 1972 and studied at Crawford
College of Art and Design, Cork, Chelsea School of Art, London, Hochschule
der Kunst, Berlin and St Martins School of Art, London. He lives and works
in London.