NATURA
Tina Brooks
23 August - 11 September 2026
Location: Scenius Gallery, Sligo
Gallery 1 (Adelaide St.): Street-facing installation, viewable 24 hours
Gallery 2: Open Monday–Friday, 10:00–17:00
Admission: Free
About the Exhibition
Natura takes its title from the Natura 2000 network, the EU designation under which Strandhill and its surrounding coastline are protected as part of the Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) Special Area of Conservation, a landscape of shifting dunes, mudflats and estuary that also supports wintering seabirds, waterfowl and a resident colony of harbour seals. Tina Brooks lives and works on this peninsula, and the paintings in this exhibition are built directly from her observation of it: each begins outdoors, in response to the day's weather and light, before being reworked in the studio through repeated layers of paint laid down and scraped back until she recognises the place again. Read together, the works trace the same tidal ground the designation exists to protect: an emotional response, in Brooks's words, "to environment and place."
Artist
Tina Brooks
Tina lives and works in Strandhill, Co. Sligo. She graduated from the institute of Technology Sligo in 2006 with a BA Hons in Fine Art. She has gone on to exhibit throughout Ireland and abroad. Her works have been purchased by Ambassador Ann Derwin, Embassy of China, Beijing. Sligo Institute of Technology and The Office of Public Works, Roscommon. Tina's work can be found in several collections throughout Ireland, Germany, Japan, America and England.
“My drawings and paintings are based on observations of Strandhill peninsula and its weather. Drawing outside is my primary source of information and an exercise in responsive/gestural mark making.
Studio work is not pre-planned. I use a method of laying down and scraping off paint, chalk and charcoal. Each layer and brush mark, informs the next. I repeat this layering and rejecting until I can locate myself and recognize the place and its weather. These drawings and paintings are an emotional response by me to environment and place.”
Instagram: @tina.brooks.7902
All works
Credits
Curated by Marita O’Hanlon
With Scenius Gallery
Oil on canvas, 27 x 25 cm.
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