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“Margaret Cahill is based at Rogue Studios in Manchester and lectures in Fine Art at Bolton University.
She has exhibited in London, New York and Eastern Europe as well as widely in the North West most recently in a solo show at The Atkinson, Southport and at The Walker, Liverpool.
Her work is represented in the collections of Salford Museums and Art Gallery and South Manchester Hospital Trust as well as in private collections in Britain, America and Europe.
Margaret creates disturbingly beautiful images in paintings of vast atmospheric spaces that are evocative of a sense of place. Balanced between truth and invention they offer the possibility for narrative and meaning yet remain elusive.
Photographing real structures, manipulating the images and then transforming them through the paintings, she creates an alternative place that evokes the real one, yet retains its identity as a place apart.
This incorporation of photographs combined with a subtle playfulness of scale contributes to an unsettling edge.in work that explores issues around memory, absence and presence and the boundaries between fiction and reality.
The resulting paintings are both meditative and jarring.”
