Students from Ghort an Choirce Youthreach and artists Martha McCulloch and Rebecca Strain worked together throughout October, as part of the Creative Schools initiative. Students looked at how identities are created, those we build for ourselves and those determined for us by others. Using just their smartphones and simple props they explored how they might present different personas. The creative process involved looking at contemporary photographic artists like Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing and discussing ways to make effective emotive images. The artworks produced have been manipulated using cyanotype (sun printing) and photomontage to produce the playful, inventive work which made up the exhibition.
Kevin is interested in the extreme cultural juxtaposition between certain aspects of the landscape of the northwest of Ireland and certain principles of materiality in contemporary sculpture. With its mountainous undulating coastline that is constantly being formed and reformed by the omnipresent power of the north Atlantic Ocean, it is a landscape that is undeniably sculptural in its topography and fundamental essence.
Past projects include solo and group shows with the Earagail Arts Festival and the Derry City of Culture 2013 visual arts programme and a driftwood mandala installed and immolated at Burning Man in 2006.
- November 25, 2021
