Associated Artists – MART Gallery & Studios

Terence Erraught

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:00:24 +0000

Terence Erraught

www.terenceerraught.com

My practice encompasses predominantly digital video, video installation and performative events. Artworks have been shown in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally including; Los Angles Centre for Digital Art (Los Angeles, California), Riverside Studios (London, England), The MART (Dublin, Ireland), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (Dublin, Ireland), The LAB (Dublin, Ireland), Custom House Studios and Gallery (Mayo, Ireland), The Shed (Galway, Ireland), Cross Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), National Botanical Gardens (Dublin, Ireland).

Mediums of exploration are central to the creative process and the final work itself, with a strong focus on the use of paint, (recycled) cardboard and domestic materials. Areas of exploration include humour, everyday absurdities, site specific engagement and the incorporation of domestic objects (creating an alternative use for these). These elements exist alongside Rube Goldberg’s concepts in terms of cause and effect incorporated with the use of complicated objects to complete potentially or otherwise simple results. Inspiration arises from the era of vaudeville, classical oil painting traditions and film (with a wide range of sources spanning from 1980s comedies to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton)

Steven Maybury

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:58:05 +0000

Steven Maybury

www.stevenmaybury.com

Using familiar and everyday materials Maybury focuses on our relationship with the temporary as a way to reflect upon the beauty and the energy rooted in the rhythms and cycles of our surroundings. Primarily a drawing based practice; Maybury extends his knowledge and understanding of drawing into sculptures, installations and animations.. Appropriating found and sourced materials, his work looks to defuse our obsession with archiving, security, permanency and preservation. In recent drawings he also exposes selected areas of the image to light for varying lengths of time, which in many cases is an open-ended process without a fixed timescale. This introduces a further dimension, creating additional disruptions, as well as new geometries, and enhancing the works’ impermanence. Maybury’s practice is dedicated to intertwining cultural interests, artistic concerns and leisurely rituals as a reflection on our physical relationships in this world.

Since leaving art college in 2012, he has been awarded a number of artist bursaries, awards and residencies, and in 2013 took part in a European touring exhibition, ‘40-40-40’, which showcased new talent in Ireland’s state art collection. Solo and two-person shows include: ‘Anicca’, The Library Project, Dublin (2016 solo), Dukkha, Platform Arts, Belfast (2016 solo); ‘Jigsaws, Combs and Rulers’, Eight Gallery, Dublin (solo, 2014); ‘Groove Chronicles’, Market Studios, Dublin (solo, 2014); ‘Radical Line’, Pallas Projects, Dublin (solo, 2014); and with Claire McCluskey: ‘Synthesis I’, Eight Gallery, Dublin (2013), and ‘Synthesis II’, Tactic Gallery, Cork (2013). In 2016 he wss invited to present works with The drawing Works agency and in 2014 he also was invited to present his drawings on The Drawing Suite, a blog for contemporary European drawing. Recent group exhibitions include: The RHA Annual, Dublin (2016, 15,14,13 – invited); Glitch art fair, Rua Red (2015); ‘Re-ignite’, Customs House, Westport (2015); Tulca contemporary art fair, Galway (2014) and ‘On Beauty’, Roscommon Arts Centre (2015).

Sofie Loscher

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:55:34 +0000

Sofie Loscher

www.sofieloscher.ie

Sofie Loscher lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice includes sculpture and installation which is heavily influenced by Physics. “I am an installation artist and sculptor working across art and science. Interested in perception and optics, my work uses illusions that demonstrate how visibility works. Recent exhibitions include Light Falls, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2015); Activating Pangea, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Intelligent Machinery, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin (2015); Welcome Disturbance, The LAB Gallery, Dublin (2015); Neutral: Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2014); Agitationism, EVA International, Limerick (2014). In 2014, I undertook a yearlong Art in Science residency in the Department of Physics at UCD. I hold an MFA in Sculpture from NCAD (2013) and a BA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT (2009).

My work explores light in its most basic form. I create installations as a way of describing how visibility works; in an attempt to redirect the viewer’s attention away from the object and towards the process of perception. My practice is realised in an unconventional range of sculptural media, predominantly with a strong scientific underpinning. It makes connections between the physical world and the visual world, exploring issues of visibility, stability, perception and contradiction. I appropriate objects to find strange and unknown functions in their performances and through manipulation, subvert the context of the original material. I employ a wide variety of media and techniques, but my personal style is characterised by forms and materials that evoke feelings of familiarity and fascination.”

Richard Forrest

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:53:21 +0000

Richard Forrest

www.richardforrest.info

Richard Forrest is a contemporary visual artist working in sculpture and digital media, currently based in the Hague, the Netherlands. In 2011 he graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design and in 2019 completed a Masters in ArtScience in The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Richard has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA in both solo and group shows. Most recent achievements include a residency in Eindhoven, exhibiting in Los Angeles and being selected for the 2017 Royal Hibernian Academies FUTURES exhibition. He has also received numerous commissions from institutions such as Facebook, for their Dublin based European Headquarters, and the Glucksman Gallery (Cork) and currently he is on the board of directors for The Visual Artists Ireland.

Margaret O’Brien

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:50:22 +0000

Margaret O’Brien

www.margaretobrien.co.uk

Margaret O’Brien is a visual artist based between the U.K. and Ireland. She works with immersive installation – combinations of sculpture, live sound, light, moving image and kinetics. Her approach to materials is experimental, producing works that often operate within a live state of malfunction or breakdown. The precarious nature of these works explores parameters of failure, emotion, and mental health as everyday experiences. These concepts are addressed through feelings of uncertainty, unease, discomfort, and instability prompted by the work.

O’Brien has won significant public funding for her work from state bodies such as the Arts Council of Ireland; Irish Research Council; Arts and Humanities Research Board UK; University College London; Dublin City Councils and Trinity College Dublin. She has completed numerous international artist residencies including the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Helsinki International Artist Program; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; and Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin. Her work is held in public collections including the Arts Council of Ireland; Allied Irish Bank; GE Aviation; and AXA Insurance. O’Brien received BA in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art, and MFA from Slade School of Art, London. She has completed an MPhil and PhD at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently a lecturer in fine art at National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

Katherine Nolan

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:48:01 +0000

Katherine Nolan

www.katherinenolan.net

An artist, lecturer and curator specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body, her research investigates gender, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. Recent publications include Fictioning the Past: Performing the Self as the Mistress of the Mantle, in Post-Catholic Ireland (ISTR, 2019).

Working primarily in performance and lens-based media, she has exhibited internationally in Europe, America and Asia and regularly curates with MART, Contemporary Irish Arts Centre Los Angeles and Livestock Performance Art Platform. Recent exhibitions include The Mistress of the Mantle solo exhibition at MART Dublin (2017) and group shows at LACE Los Angeles, Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm and Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol.

Her extensive teaching experience includes a course leader role at the University of the Arts London and visiting lectureships at The National College of Art and Design, Crawford College of Art and Design and Central Saint Martins, London.

She is currently Lecturer in Creative Digital Media in Technological University Dublin, where she has co-developed an MA in Lens-Based Media. She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate projects and her expertise includes practice-based research methodologies.

Jane Fogarty

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:45:14 +0000

Jane Fogarty

www.janefogarty.com

Jane Fogarty graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the Dublin Institute of Technology (2010). She has been included in many national and international exhibitions including; Assemble, Atelier Maser, Futures, Series 3, Episode 3, the RHA Gallery, slow motion, MART Gallery and Dearly Beloved, VISUAL Carlow.

Awards include; The Individual Artists Bursary Award’ from South Dublin County Council (2016), The Most Promising Graduate Award from The Talbot Gallery (2010), the RDS Lewis Crosby Award for Painting (2010), The Project Award (2012) and the Travel and Training Award (2015) from the Arts Council, Ireland. Fogarty’s work is part of the OPW State Art Collection, Acrylicize London and in private collections. In 2021 Fogarty will present her first international solo exhibition in Canada with support from Culture Ireland.

Statement:

Fogarty’s painting installations combine paper and pigment into compressed, hand-formed shapes and works on paper. An instinctive, evolutionary approach to accrete layers and colours into human-scale compositions is used. The paintings offer a formally different, colour-led interpretation of the sculptures. The paintings evolve without a preconceived notion of their endpoint with compositions that fold inwards. Their colour palette is predetermined, taken from a colour swatch derived from photographs of the sculptures. The paintings are made using egg tempera, with this method, the paints are made from scratch on a daily basis. Then the colour is slowly built up, layer upon layer.

Within Fogarty’s process, each work is specific to the moment of its creation and, even if repeated, results differ each time. Limitations are established from which self-dictated narratives emerge. Through the establishment of these boundaries, elements of chance and endurance enter into the work. This process stems from an interest in the ways we understand the passing of time and its translation into visual language. Analogous to time, these works can be interpreted as accumulation of moments.

The work is slow and contemplative in its creation due to the nature of the processes involved. The process is cyclical. The paintings inform the sculptural works and the sculptural works inform the paintings. Everything is connected.

James L Hayes

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:42:30 +0000

James L Hayes

www.jameslhayes.ie

James L Hayes is an Irish contemporary artist based in Cork he has multi-disciplinary art practice, making sculptures, installations, cast iron performance works and films, as well as developing large scale sculptural commissions and public art projects. Hayes’s recent works aim to reinvest a modernist sculptural language, whilst exploring aspects of the casting process as a means by which to interrogate the boundaries between artist, artisan and art object.

His sculptural work aims to draw out the often-incongruous relationships between finished art objects, and the industrial aspects of the processes that produce these revered objects. This research-based practice also highlights an art historical agenda, through the referencing of key creative influences, such as the noted and celebrated Welsh Artist Barry Flanagan. This referencing or re imagining is brought together with his broader research interests that range from contemporary interpretations of sculptural legacies, to site-specific interventionist works that draw from traces of significant pasts and histories.

Hayes exhibits his works nationally and internationally, upcoming works will be exhibited at The Glucksman Gallery in Cork , The Festival of High Temperatures at The Eeniusz Geppert School of Art & Design in Wroclaw, Poland and recent projects were held at The Regis Center for Arts at the University of Minnesota & The Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, USA ,The MART Gallery , Dublin, and at McNally School of Fine Arts at La Salle College of Arts in Singapore.

Recent commissions have been created for The Office of Public Works(OPW), The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Other recent works and installations were exhibited at the MART Gallery, in Dublin,

The UNO Gallery in New Orleans, Art Market Budapest and The SUPERMARKET Art Fair Stockholm .

In 2015 he was one of the artists in residence at The Irish Museum of Modern Arts Residency Program and was awarded Cork County Councils Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award in 2019 he has received numerous awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, Cork City Council and Cork County Council to support his practice. He is a graduate of The Limerick School of Art & Design, De Montfort University, Leicester and University of London in the UK and he is the principal Lecturer in Sculpture at Crawford College of Art in Cork Ireland.

Helen MacMahon

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:39:51 +0000

Helen Mac Mahon

www.helenmacmahon.com

Helen Mac Mahon is an Irish artist currently based in Dublin and exhibited in Ireland, Europe, the US and Asia. Her work takes the form of installations, sculpture and photography that explore light and perception.

“My practice is concerned primarily with the phenomena of light, movement, perception and space. The work strives to observe and reveal the ecosystem that exists between the viewer and these intangible elements that exist in a perpetual state of transformation. Changes occurring in each facet has a perceptible impact on others, revealing previously overlooked properties and characteristics.

My investigation of these elements is experimental in nature, and this exploratory process is as important as the finished piece, the unpredictability of the techniques often being key to discovery. I use commonplace materials, such as light, glass, and lenses that have the potential to act in surprising ways, distorting and obscuring the very things it is their function to reveal. Each component acts as a catalyst, bringing to light unseen potential in the simplest of materials. Maintaining the integrity of the materials is also important, so the viewer is allowed to experience the everyday objects in new and often unexpected ways.”

Eleanor Lawler

MART — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:36:46 +0000

Eleanor Lawler

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Eleanor Laweler’s work concerned ideas around domesticity, being female and the ageing body. Eleanor held a BA Fine Art from DIT, Dublin and an MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths College, London.

Since Eleanors passing in 2019 MART continues to assist her family in continuing her legacy. Eleanors work manifested as performance, textiles, movement, installation and film. Eleanor exhibited and performed in Europe and USA.

Her films have been shown in Liverpool Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery and as part of “Visual Deflections” in 2008/9. One of her final works; The Invisible Woman, was shown at LACE Gallery in Los Angeles in March 2018.

She was instrumental in the creation and curation of Livestock Live Art Platform with Francis Fay since 2011 and had been an Assistant Director at Dublin Live Art Festival for 2013/14 & 15. She was an active member of the MART Gallery and Studios since 2010.