INSTALLATION WORK
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims to explore and reference many concepts and ideas but it is mostly underpinned by ideas of conflict and confrontation. My work can deal with simple material conflicts but also engage with more sinister and more psychological conflicts of the mind and pysche.
Often in my practcie I utilise everyday objetcts with a simple domestic use and elivate their status into artwork by creating large sets of multiples or by transforming their original context via a casting process. More recently the incorpoartaion of digital film and sound has given my sculptural intallation works a greater dimension both visually and psychologically.
Influences on my recent practice have ranged from the novels of JG Ballard to the short stories of Charles Bukowski and by the constant undepining and referenceing to Freud’s essay on the ‘Uncanny’. Humour is also a central concern to my practice as is deriving the appropriate visual means to articulate any given idea. I do not feel bound to any particular tradition or format and my work is now based on a proposal or interventionist basis and most recently my practice has expanded into the public arena via large scale commissioned works that engage and utilise public interaction and relfection..
Education
2001- University of London, UK 1997 MA Fine Art- De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 1995-BA in Fine Art -Sculpture-Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland, 1993-Erasmus Scholarship-University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain.
RECENT COMMISSIONED WORKS
2008/09-Cork City Council
2009/10-Mayo County Council
Recent One Person & Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 ‘In Memory of Hostile Encounters…’ new works by james hayes
Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick,
2009: ‘How do you know?’-Emerging Irish Artists- ‘Blankspace Gallery’ Oakland, San Francisco, California, USA, The International Conference on Contemporary Sculpture at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark-Birmingham, Alabama, USA ,Iron Tribe Invitational -Burris Hall Gallery -New Mexico Highlands University,Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
2008 Global Warming at The ICEBOX’-, Crane Arts Philadelphia & The ICEBOX, Philadelphia, Penn, USA-Curated by Adelina Vlas- Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, THE USUK 9th International Sculpture Symposium, Suffolk, UK , Tiny Iron Downntown Aurora Visual Arts(DAVART), Denver, USA-Curated by Vivane Le Cortious, ‘too early for vacation..’ Ev+a- 08, Limerick, Ireland -Curated by Hou Hanrou – San Francisco Art Institute, Heavy Metal Vail Public Library, Vail, Colorado USA, Centre Pavilion-IRELAND- World Snow Festival, Grindelwald, Switzerland
2007 ‘margin’ 18×21 – OPW, St. Stephen Green Dublin 2, THE USUK 8th International Sculpture Symposium, Salem Art Works, New York, USA
Recent Reviews /Articles
Sculpture Magazine (ISC) No. 7 Sept. 09, VAI Bullethin-june/july-09, CIRCA-124-Summer 2008, The Irish Times-Article -Aidan Dunne 19/03/08, The Irish Examiner-Interview 05/2/08-Aileen Quinlan/ / The Irish Independent-09/01/08/ The Irish Examiner-Interview -10/01/08-Ailleen Quinlan/ -Spring 08/ The Sunday Times-Culture-23/03/08
Recent Awards
2008 Travel & Mobility Award -The Arts Council of Ireland, 2007 Travel & Mobility Awards -The Arts Council of Ireland, Individual Artist Bursary Award -Cork City Council, 2006 Travel Award -Cork City Council
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