{"id":36,"date":"2010-08-09T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-11-22T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:07:49","slug":"the-circus-animals-desertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/the-circus-animals-desertion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Ghislaine Howard, \u2018The Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion.<\/strong><\/h2>\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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"Self Portrait In The Studio\" src=\"http:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-circus-animals-desertion\/self-portrait-in-the-studio.jpg\" alt=\"Self Portrait In The Studio\" width=\"431\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In her imagination, Ghislaine Howard equates her Irish home, the Old Distillery in Birr, with Thoor Ballylee, 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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghislainehoward.com\/images\/web-image-yeats.jpg\" alt=\"Title\" width=\"194\" height=\"288\" \/><\/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>Recently named as a \u2018Woman of the Year\u2019 in the U.K., Ghislaine is an artist known for powerful and expressive paintings that record and interpret shared human ex-perience. She exhibits widely in the UK and Europe and has work in many public and private collections, including the Royal Collection. This will be her first exhibition in Ireland.<\/p>\n<h4>You are invited to the official opening of the exhibition which will take place at 6.30pm on <strong>Friday 13 August<\/strong> at the Estate office, Rosse Row, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.<\/h4>\n<p>Click the links to see more images from <a title=\"Ghislaine Howard The Circus Animals Desertion\" href=\"..\/art-paintings-drawings\/the-circus-animals-desertion\/\">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,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-artist-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}