Bernadette Burns

Falling into the Sky

We set ourselves a task: (Tasks feel good)

“Make this! Out of anything! This big.
Make it and think about the words: FALLING INTO THE SKY
Bring it back.
See what happens when we put them all together. Now what?
Where shall we go from here?”

Falling into the sky is a visual collaborative adventure devised by a group of five West Cork Artists who are working across familiar and unfamiliar platforms including drawing, painting, ceramics, book making and installation. The artwork represents a journey into unchartered territories. It is informed using intuitive task related methodologies to develop a body of work that cannot have been anticipated at the outset or throughout the duration of this project.

Bernadette Burns - Wendy Dison - Nicola Kelly - Tess Leak - Gana Roberts

‘Life and death, day and night, sharpness and mist, sunlight and fog…

we travel through life in this boat we call a body, sometimes steering confidently, sometimes with a partner, sometimes in good company, sometimes lost and feeling alone in a fog that obscures all points of reference…always searching for meaning, for something higher.

Looking backwards to the past, trying to find a truth, we search for the best path forward.’

Bernadette Burns

Róisín Foley Review Essay: Falling into the Sky

Falling into the Sky is an artistic collaboration between Bernadette Burns, Wendy Dison, Nicola Kelly, Tess Leak and Gana Roberts. They have been meeting as a group and working on projects together since May 2018. Guided by intuition and inspired by a phrase from John Banville’s novel Ghosts, Falling into the Sky reminds us of the necessity in making art as a means to both process and document the stories within and around us. read more