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The main themes of my work include isolation and alienation as represented through place and the human landscape. I photograph mostly everyday environments as an outsider, dislocated from a space’s primary function and instead viewing it from the perspective of a bystander. In portraying these landscapes shaped by humans in such a way, I aim to...
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Using tools of performance and image making, my practice adopts an approach of practical philosophy. Combining dialogical methodologies and performative strategies, the work centres on the nature of the image and sets out to create an encounter that goes beyond representational means, towards a more experiential engagement. By creating...
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ConceptsMy practice has involved the exploration of locations through the use of maps. The locations include interior spaces and landscape. The maps are used to create references to location both metaphorically and symbolically and to provide the basis for explorations of space. The significance of maps with their territorial references are...
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I am artist that makes, curates, facilitates and teaches, projects and ideas. Within my practise I perform and direct actions, performances and events. These events generally question the pre-existing structures that constitute artist and audience but also question any establishment of behaviours. I aim to integrate audience, making the audience...
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Working in sculpture & installation, I manipulate seemingly mundane objects to reveal the strangeness of the everyday and the paradoxical language of the readymade. Within my work, an object is not encountered as a concrete 'thing' with a concrete meaning but as a nameless 'something' in a constant state of becoming. Through minimal...
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As a visual artist, my practice focuses on printmaking and installation.My work directly responds and questions who I am and how my memories have informed my present. By using autobiography and photography I have sought to find my own vocabulary through words and images. As an artist from Northern Ireland my childhood memories have been concerned...
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Allan Hughes is an artist based in Belfast and working out of Orchid Studios. His video work explores relationships and responses to the recorded voice and its role in the negotiation and remediation of historical narratives. Hughes’ works usually proceeds from research into the sites, documents and apparatus of recorded and remediated...
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My work has always been about the tree. I don't know why, it's something that I feel has unanswered questions, something that may never be solved. By using pieces of the tree that have died or fallen I created work in a state of evolution. The fallen tree represents the death, while using it within the work it is reborn. I specialise in...
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If you look at magnificent later work like "The Ulster Saga",you find much more complex meditations upon violence in relation to the history of the North-and it is no accident that Gleason's paintings are being rediscovered by younger generations of Northern Irish painters who never knew such work even existed. Like so many of the...
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My research is located in the practices of drawing and related paper based practices, and is concerned with observation, natural form and the tension between man-made and natural, the slippage between culture and nature. Currently I am working on a series of drawings of plants (Cactus, Pitcher, Savoy etc), with the intention of adding other...
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Open Frequency ProfileFeargal O'Malley, Northern Ireland Manager for Visual Artists Ireland, profiles the work of Mark McGreevy.Mark McGreevy’s densely packed compositions appear continually to shift focus between overlapping visual planes, as if caught between two worlds, a pictorial equivalent of today’s...
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For over a decade, Jennifer Trouton has been observing the flux which the habitus has had on the physical transformations that map the Irish landscape and the houses built on this landscape, some of which have been abandoned [Re(collection), 2007] or others which have been cherished, with memories both real and imagined exposed [Ellipsis, 2008].In...
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My practice involves the production and projection of 35mm slides. I am drawn to these found images, many of which have lost their original provenance. I facilitate the generation of new narratives, formed by the transformation of private familial images into the public sphere; a place where the viewer may become the author of someone else’s...
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The aspiration of my painting through drawing is to respond to the language and history of landscape in a 21st century context to assert the interconnection between man/woman and nature. I am concerned with the forensics and history of what we really see in the landscape which is often recorded in the naming of places. Beyond the...
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I am a magpie  I collect, collate I salvage, save I appropriate, arrange I hoard, in my own order It's a question of sculpture, skill and sarcasm Of labour, laziness and love 3-dimensional drawing, painting, collage. My work is about the questioning and balance of materials, actions and thoughts in order to ascertain the...
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Phil Hession is a visual artist working in performance and video. His practice explores the oral traditions of song and storytelling.This is done predominantly through social and cultural exchanges, often taking the form of interviews or gatherings. These exchanges involve the documentation and archiving of song and story, and include teaching...
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'...The dream is the theatre where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic' (Carl Jung, General Aspects of Dream Psychology)In a show comprising some fine work, including Alistair Freeburn’s musings on the woodbutcher’s art and the accomplished paintings of Tim Millen, Paola...
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 Open Frequency ProfileSara Greavu is an artist and curator based in Derry, Northern Ireland. Peter Richards, an artist based in Belfast, discusses her video and performance-based practice.  What is revealed by dressing up? What is hidden in plain view?The history and act of Masquerade, in particular the Halloween Carnival in Derry,...
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A genuine enthusiasm for pop culture and a light touch with her material characterise Linda Monks's final show for the University of Ulster, Belfast MFA.Monks is playfully adroit with a variety of media: the show includes video, animation, drawing, and a range of other elements including a faux neon sign made from Christmas decoration rope...
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Brendan Jamison’s sculptures are a set of contradictions: masculine/feminine, fragile/solid, organic/architectural. He takes inspiration from the New British Sculptors of the early 1980s, such as Tony Cragg and Anish Kapoor. He works in a variety of organic materials including wood, wool, wax and sugar. Each material represents a different...
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Artist statementMy work focuses on the human perception of the environment, exploring our relationship with time and space while also highlighting the natural interconnectivity within the environment and the beauty within the every day.Sound is vibration, the physical movement of energy in the form of waves. Sound touches us, even the softest...
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'Airborne (MAD)' (2009) is installed in a narrow room with a partially tapered entranceway, like a giant mouse hole, forcing visitors to bend over in order to walk in. Inside the room an animation of stark, simple geometrical shapes is projected onto a trapezoidal screen which is continually rotating, causing the image to drift...
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