Simone Schneider

Draíocht presents Heile Welt, a first solo exhibition by young German artist, Simone Schneider.

Heile Welt is a particular German expression that roughly translated means an intact or perfect world. In this exhibition Schneider explores the natural human longing for such a world and the inevitable impossibility to find or believe in such a place.

Her approach balances the most delicate and exquisite drawings in watercolour and pencil with thick crudely executed line drawings in dark inks. The subjects of her work emphasise the irony of her theme. Toy pink panthers, rabbits, deers and houses in the landscape (repeated at a manic level) seem to teeter on the edge of innocence rather than symbolise it as they should.

The exhibition will be made up of clusters of drawings hung in a mixture of ordered narratives rather like comic strips and as well as disordered single pieces.

Simone Schneider graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the College of Art, Kassel, Germany in 1999 and an MA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2001. She lives and works in Germany.

This exhibition continues a key objective of Draíocht’s visual arts policy – to present and promote excellent new work by young artists.