MARY DEMPSEY

BIOGRAPHY

Mary Dempsey is an interdisciplinary artist, living in Galway. Her voice/audio installation,What Happened, was selected for the arts council Touring experiment 2007. Mary’s Video installation ‘Through The Eye of the Alpha’ was in The Catalyst Arts Centre Belfast Jan 2008; G126, Galway, Feb 2008.

The Audio Installation ‘Residue of the Word’, featured at Excursions, Limerick Perfomance Festival January 2008 and at ‘Art is not Mute’, The Ersta Konsthall Sound Archive Exhibition Gothenburg, Sweden & MART Launch, Silke’s Warehouse, Galway.

Statistics, a black and white film with improvised music and sound effects was programmed with Darklight films on Tour by ENSO for the Galway 06 Project.

Mary Dempsey has been short-listed for a number of poetry awards. She has given readings in Italy and France as part of a European interdisciplinary arts initiative to promote adult education.

MART, Galway Arts Festival 2008, Despatches, film installation with improvised music (used colour reversal film technique, telecined to video).

MART Galway Arts Festival 2009 Sound Waves in the Waterworks, sound/audio installation, site specific, the bathroom of an 18th century thatched cottage on Henry Street, Galway city. referenced Joyce’s use of water sound effects in Ulysses ‘pick, pack, pock, puck’.