Marie Kearney In Belfast

SQ SPACE, Belfast's newest Art Gallery, presents a two-person show called “Love and Jazz for under a Grand” with American painter Ahmad Austin and Marie Kearney from Co Down. Austin paints at night to jazz - in the day he teaches art in Alabama. The essence and feelings that jazz evokes, the body movement and facial expressions and its exuberant energy are what his art tries to mirror. The human form also fascinates Marie Kearney. Her work is an autobiographical and psychological investigation through personal and imaginative experiences. Through constructed narratives, the viewer is engaged in often enigmatic settings, which leave scope for individual interpretation. Marie Kearney sometimes hints at the darker side of human nature and its swiftly changing emotions. This is a serious painter intent on making a significant mark in Irish Art. Smart local art collectors, keen on backing emerging talent, will surely snap these up.