{"id":155,"date":"2010-11-10T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/"},"modified":"2010-11-20T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T10:42:23","slug":"the-circus-animals-desertion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/art-paintings-drawings\/the-circus-animals-desertion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circus Animals Desertion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Ghislaine Howard, \u2018The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>An exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints<\/h4>\n<h4>13th &#8211; 20th August, Estate Office, Birr, County Ofally, Ireland<\/h4>\n<h3><strong><em>\u2018I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-787e966d42a5e4023e1f19f34696b515-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" 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        style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n                            \n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In her imagination, Ghislaine Howard equates her Irish home, the Old  Distillery in Birr, with Thoor Baylee, W. B. Yeats\u2019 famous tower,  inspiration for so many of his poem.<\/p>\n<p>This suite of monotypes and related works are inspired by Yeats\u2019 late  poem, \u2018The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion\u2019 which centres on the mysterious  nature of artistic creation.Her exhibition explores the \u2018rag and bone  shop of the heart\u2019: the people, memories, ambitions, images and objects  that make up an artist\u2019s vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Ghislaine interweaves images suggested by the poem with references to  her own life and work. She also pays homage to Picasso\u2019s Vollard Suite,  etchings that the Spanish master produced just a few years before  Yeats\u2019 re-assessment of his poetic self<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ghislaine Howard The Circus Animals Desertion\" href=\"..\/art-paintings-drawings\/the-circus-animals-desertion\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislaine Howard, \u2018The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion. An exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints 13th &#8211; 20th August, Estate Office, Birr, County Ofally, Ireland \u2018I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so.\u2019 In her imagination, Ghislaine Howard equates her Irish home, the Old Distillery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}