- Matter and Infinity
- A solo show by Dani Gill
- 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway
- April 10th-24th 2024
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Matter and Infinity is a solo show by Dani Gill, exploring memory, water, lineage, the real, and the ephemeral. Working with water, text, and sculpture, the work explores what it means to exist in, and between universal planes, the fractured nature of memory, and how we understand our own physical state.
Matter: timber, wood for building, the woody part of a tree
M?teria, derivative of m?ter “mother, source, origin of (material and abstract) things.”
Three states of matter: solid; liquid and gas.
4th kind of matter-Plasma, the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including the Sun), but also dominating the rarefied intracluster medium and intergalactic medium.
Infinity: from early French infinité, derived from Latin infinitus “having no limit,” from in- “not” and finitus, past participle of finire “to limit, bring to an end,” from finis “end, limit”
Anaximander, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, ‘apeiron’, which means “unbounded”, “indefinite”
Mathematician John Wallis, 1655: three main types of infinity may be distinguished: the mathematical, the physical, and the metaphysical.
Matter and Infinity
- Roscommon Poetry Laneway
- Public Art Commission
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Public Art POETRY LANEWAY, CHAPEL LANE, ROSCOMMON
A new Poetry Laneway installation will be unveiled on National Poetry Day Ireland, as part of the larger public art programme titled ‘Living Laneways’, an innovative laneway trail where artists can respond creatively to public laneways in Roscommon Town and to its history, story and community. Supported by Roscommon County Council, the Poetry Laneway features the work of three contemporary poets, and is designed by west of Ireland artist Dani Gill.
Jane Clarke, Louise G. Cole and Dani Gill have created new written work and Musician and composer Phil Robson has collaborated with the writers, to present a custom sound piece for each of the poems.
The works will be presented in lightboxes in Chapel Lane, an important historic laneway in Roscommon town. The artists involved will launch the laneway with an in person event at 3pm. The poets will introduce and read their poetry and attendees can scan a QR code in each lightbox, that will lead to the music composition created by Phil Robson.
This is part of the final element of the Roscommon Town Main Street and Market Square Public Realm Project funded under the 2018 Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) and developed by Roscommon County Council Regeneration team working with GKMP Architects, and a multidisciplinary group appointed to implement the innovative architectural and artistically influenced Covered Civic Space in Roscommon Town Centre.
Raise Your Spear
“I strongly believe that we create the world we live in. We can choose kindness, and openness. We can share stories and become empowered by that sharing. Raise Your Spear is about voices, and making visible in the public domain, something that is often a private fight, borne in silence.”
Raise Your Spear is an LGBTQ+ Allyship project involving workshops where participants decorate 6ft tall spears with Dani, in a workshop exploring the themes of identity and community.
Inspired by the poem from Dani’s collection Lessons in Kindness, Raise Your Spear aims to highlight allyship and invite conversation on the themes of identity, community and belonging.
The project aims to create 200 spears that will go on to be exhibited in public spaces and galleries, along with notes and voices from the project.
New partners welcome. Get in touch if you are interested in being part of the project : dani@danigill.com