Ulster artist Dermot Seymour has been described as a social realist, often exploring societal themes through the lens of surreal subjectivity. His images seem to leap from a dreamlike state that is both precise and bewildering. His new exhibition, Hidden Dips, Blind Summits: The Road to Brexiteria, in his own words, “Take the viewer across the dystopian notion of a Brexit on the border.”
“The world is viewed here from an enchanted distance. It is made strange and new by the yoking together of heterogeneous things like a Russian helicopter and a wild duck, wildflowers that might have come from Botticelli, and a dead fish that seems to have escaped Hieronymous Bosch; it is also made at once entrancing and inscrutable by the actual quality of the painting itself.” – Seamus Heaney, on Dermot Seymour’s work.
