PRESS AND CRITIQUE

“de Bri’s sculptures are harbingers and symbols of emotional states. Their attributes are often where the head should be such as an open book with fluttering pages, a miniature house with no windows and doors or with appendages such as wings, antlers, lobster claws. All are metaphors for states of mind. Some possess a talismanic, guardian quality, particularly potent in the she-stag. This is arguably de Bri’s most accomplished work to date, cathartic, thematically resolved and technically excellent.”

- Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator IMMA
Essay on Solo Show ‘Out of The Shadows’

Those familiar with the artists work will expect not so much a lecture on Nietzsche and Dutch still life as elegance, wit and insight, and a touch of provocative mischief, and they will not be disappointed.

- Aiden Dunne - Art Critic, The Irish Times

“de Brí is an inveterate observer; constantly curious about human communication and behaviour. We are all, she notes, bound to our thoughts, to our surroundings, and to each other.

De Brí has consistently developed and maintained her focus on the human form as a way of articulating her experience of the world around her, and, at the same time, as all excellent art should do, to remind and provoke your viewers – us - into thinking about our actions and our place in the world.”

- Dr Éimear O Connor HRHA
Director of Collections National Museum of Ireland

Flux is a series of sensitivity and hopefulness and on the cautions against the tyranny and fixed ideas of beauty. nature and change are not to be feared but celebrated. These works show us that the future holds and third space within which we can all grow as individuals and as humans.