Rubbish Dump

Artist Nano Reid (1900 - 1981)

Date1958

MediumOil on board

Dimensions45.8 x 61 cm

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Kirkpatrick Bequest through the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 1982. © The Estate of Nano Reid.

Object number1484

DescriptionThe swirling chaotic world presented in the 'Rubbish Dump' with its bird's eye view of a landscape in which emblematic images of a boat, a horse, and a figure pouring refuse down a hillside all merge together is typical of her mature style. Painted in 1958, it relies on a strong and assured manipulation of paint and an exaggeration of line and colour for its visual effects. Reid's personal brand of Expressionism, which has been termed post-Yeatsian, is characterised by an emphasis on line, a richness and subtlety of colour and a unique form of lyricism. Seán O Faolain, on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition held in her honour in Dublin and Belfast in 1974, aptly described her as 'something of a poetic visionary, writing in code about things behind the seen surface, an imagination nurtured in the Boyne Valley whose rich uplands and ancient stones silently murmur ancestral memories'.

(Extract from 'Images and Insights', Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1993, p. 116)

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