Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co.Kildare

Noel Hensey is the 2011 Kildare County Council Emerging Visual Artist Exhibition Bursary Award recipient which has enabled him to create this exhibition entitled ‘Miles from Home’. The exhibition is inspired by famous Kildare landmarks and is concerned with the creation of openness or spaciousness. The work can be seen as a philosophical exploration in reducing all phenomena e.g. thought, physical matter etc. into sound. The exhibition contains two elements. A sound installation entitled ‘Sound Garden’ inspired by The Japanese Rock Gardens (Karesansui). The rocks are replaced by speakers, the sounds of which conceptually represent traditional elements found in gardens such as fountains and bridges. The second, a photographic series shot on The Curragh Plains, depicts evidence of spaciousness.
 
‘By the perception of degrees of remoteness and of regular return of phonic stimulus…for the human being the appreciation of space is a matter of sound.’ –Roland Barthes
 
Noel Hensey, born Dublin, is a MA Fine Art graduate from Chelsea College, London. At Chelsea he received a Special Projects Award from Chelsea Arts Club Trust and was shortlisted for the Red Mansion Art Prize. Hensey’s solo exhibitions include: ‘Rollage’, The Ivy House, Dublin, 2004 and ‘Sick’, Pallas Contemporary Projects (P.C.P.), Dublin, 2008. His group exhibitions include: Q-Art London Presents II, APT Gallery, London, 2010 and Minor Domestic Interventions, 38b Peckham Rye, London, 2011.This year he was selected for Bloomeberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
 
For further information see: www.noelhensey.com