The ARC exhibition wax rhapsodic, curated by Astrid Newman, took place at the LAB Gallery from Wednesday 12 January to Saturday 22 January 2022.

The exhibition featured works by Dermot Blighe, Anthony Cleary, Frances Hennigan, Oona Hyland, Diaa Lagan, Elida Maiques, Gillian O’Shea, Lucy Peters, John Roch Simons, Cathy Scullion, Izabela Szczutkowska.

The gallery plan and full list of works can be accessed here and a PDF of the exhibition poster/foldout by Pure Designs is accessible here

You can view video documentation of wax rhapsodic here

All photographic and video documentation is by Louis Haugh.

From left, works by Dermot Blighe, John Roch Simons, Lucy Peters, Oona Hyland

Works by Lucy Peters (sculpture) and Izabela Szczutkowska (wall)

From left, works by Anthony Cleary, John Roch Simons, Dermot Blighe

Works by Lucy Peters (sculpture) and Diaa Lagan in the Cube Gallery

Gillian O’Shea, Pulse, 2021

Works by Frances Hennigan (video) and Cathy Scullion (video projection, drawing)

Diaa Lagan, Atilal / أَطلَالُ / Edifice, 2022 (detail)

Elida Maiques, These 19 tlapitzali, 2021

Anthony Cleary, ……… of not knowing, 2022