Cork-based artist embraces a broader palette with current exhibition

American-born Katherine Boucher Beug, tells Mark Ewart about her move into sculpture

FOR her current exhibition at the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin, Cork-based artist Katherine Boucher Beug shows her trademark expressive paintings and assemblages; but for the first time, is also exhibiting purely sculptural work.

So what brought about the move into fully-fledged sculpture? “I had been putting little stages on paintings and wood on paintings, fabric on paintings for a long time,” the American-born Beug explains, “and finally, I broke through the voice that said ‘You can’t do it’”. The transition was liberating as despite the precision seen in the completed pieces, the artist relished the flexibility to move and change elements of the sculptures around while making them.