'Watching a Sunset, 8.50pm’ opens at Roscommon Arts Centre
'Watching a Sunset, 8.50 p.m' is a major exhibition by artist Andy Parsons.
A major exhibition by artist Andy Parsons has opened at Roscommon Arts Centre.
The exhibition, ‘Watching a Sunset, 8.50pm’, forms part of a wider series of six exhibitions presented across Ireland during 2026–27, each assigned a precise moment in time — from 20:49 to 20:54 — forming a sequence of temporal markers within the artist’s ongoing exploration of watching a sunset as a shared and attentive experience.
Working across painting and sculpture, Andy Parsons creates immersive environments that invite audiences to slow down and encounter light, atmosphere, and presence as physical and collective conditions.
At the centre of the exhibition, a large-scale painting is installed on a freestanding wall, transforming the gallery into an immersive spatial environment organised around colour, perception, and duration. Surrounding sculptural works extend the horizon of the painting into three dimensions, carrying traces of studio process, material transformation, and intergenerational making.
A dedicated process area reveals the relationship between handmade and digitally realised forms, including sculptural works developed through scanning and 3D printing. Tactile elements within the exhibition invite visitors to engage through touch as well as sight, expanding how the work can be encountered and experienced and supporting multiple forms of access.
Each exhibition in the series is accompanied by a limited edition risograph print produced in collaboration with Pulled, Sligo. Visitors to Roscommon Arts Centre are invited to take one free of charge. Produced in an edition of 100, these prints allow the work to circulate beyond the gallery and reinforce the artist’s interest in accessibility, exchange, and shared ownership of artistic experience.
His practice spans painting, sculpture, and community contexts, exploring how moments of collective attention - such as watching a sunset - can be translated into material form. His work holds stillness and presence as contemporary conditions, creating spaces where viewers are invited to gather, look, and remain. The exhibition is curated by Laura Mahon.
‘Watching a Sunset, 8:50 pm’ continues until June 30th at Roscommon Arts Centre.
A public programme of events accompanies the exhibition.
