‘Uaimh’ Catalogue Essay, by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, March 1997
“The dark recesses which provide the focus of these paintings are at once inviting and forbidding…”
reviews and articles
‘Uaimh’ at Kerlin, Sunday Tribune, 30 March 1997
“…O’Dowd is using the notion of the void, a nothingness at the heart, to draw us into the paintings.”
‘Uaimh’ at Kerlin, Sunday Times, 30 March 1997; by Medb Ruane
“Painterly steel in a deceptively velvet glove.”
Press Release, ‘Uaimh Series’, Kerlin, 1997
“For O’Dowd, these forms represent the link between what is and what was.”
‘Uaimh’ at Kerlin, Irish Times, March 1997; by Brian Fallon
“…the forms have more weight, mystery and concentration in themselves and often reach out almost into abstraction.”
Gwen O’Dowd, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 31 January – 26 February 1984; Circa Art Magazine, #15, 1984, p. 18; by Aidan Dunne
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