Dear WIN Member

It is with much excitement, I extend this invitation to you!   Top Floor Flat Events is delighted to announce that talented, Dublin born Artist, Pete Dunne will be presenting his work for one weekend in October 2014 and Members of WIN are invited to attend a private viewing on the evening of Saturday 4th of October.

The show’s witty title,

‘I came over here with nothing and still have most of it left’

suggests the focus of Pete’s current work, which is both witty and at times hollers, loneliness.

This current work by Pete Dunne gives us insight into the world of the Irish emigrants to England. The artist brings into focus the rooted mindful concentration of the musician at a west of Ireland pub session, their pose, a heavy seated weight embodying a sense of place… feet firm on the floor, instrument an extension of the musician, the lament can exist in the tune or the song, so they can exist in the here and now – in and of the land and the landscape.

We emigrants in contrast are unseated, ungrounded, we can have no song, no lament, because there is nothing to contain it, we are always turning back, eyes to the left, faces to the west, bodies twisted as our feet make a feeble attempt to take root in the land we have adopted to survive – but the tune carries on the wind, a constant remembering calling us back home…

We becoming more Irish even than the Irish at home, a human heritage centre of all that is precious and left behind, a museum to the past keeping us tiptoeing around the present…

This exhibition is not to be missed and will resonate with you, days after you leave by the back door.