Catherine Bowe finds that while Marie Holohan’s paintings have a maze-like structure, her work remains free and unforced
In Greek mythology, the Athenian prince Theseus slays a monster at the centre of a maze. The ball of thread his lover, Ariadne, gave him on entering the labyrinth guides him safely out of it. The thread and Theseus’ navigation through the maze have come to represent a journey of self-discovery and a larger narrative in the development of the human psyche. The threaded pattern of escape creates an image of a line that is fluid and intertwined.
Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig
