Aine Florence
Aisling Roche
My work is connected to the environment, in particular the sea. This work conveys the emotions that are evoked as a result of living and engageing with the ocean. This piece is concerned with the minutae, the details, and the importance of these details often forgotten to bigger picture.
Alvin Sexton
My work is always about, Time, Places, Feelings and Emotions through drawing and painting mainly. My art is abstract realism, as I work from experiences I have felt and seen in my life, this provokes emotions as I remember and reflect on. With this always in mind, I tend to work with a focus on detail in everything I work on. This can be a challenge, but one I love as life is just one big challenge. Every Key tells a story, so what story can your keys tell you? I work on paper, canvas and hardboard wood, with graphite pencil and acrylic paint.
Angela Fewer
This painting is in praise of the sea. For the last 30 years I have spent every summer on Heir Island in Roaring Water Bay. The sea is a constant presence on the island. It surrounds everything - a vast display of blues, greys, greens and everything in-between. Heir Island started my love affair with the sea. In this painting I try to portray the vastness and beauty of the sea.
The painting is acrylic on canvas.
As a qualified architect I worked for many years both in Ireland and abroad. I went on the study as a mature student at the Crawford College of Art, Cork. obtaining an Honours Degree in Fine Art.
Space and structure are key elements of my work - a legacy of my experience as an architect. Colour is also important.
www.angelafewer.com
Angie Shanahan
Anna Hartt- Macnamara
Anne Crossey
Though my work is influenced by the landscape around me: shadows between trees, seaweed in the lake, primarily it reflects an internal world: thoughts, struggles, tensions, reflections, things seen and not seen.
Places, bogs, trees, fog, dream, water, reason, raw umber.
I paint to clear my thoughts for writing. I wanted to be a writer, not a painter but I'm lucky to have the space for it. I enjoy the process: the smells, colours, textures. When a painting is finished, it feels 'right'. That's a very satisfying feeling but it doesn't happen all the time. Most paintings are never finished. They stay in a sort of vaguely dissatisfying limbo. That's probably a metaphor for something. Most things about art are metaphors for something. I think what people paint, what we see, gives a glimpse into their inner world, but that doesn't need to make sense. It's a glimpse into the experience of being them. It's not about words. It doesn't need a narrative. It's the opposite of writing that way. I think painting is a form of making magic. My paintings always begin with magic, with something that isn't seen in the end.
www.annecrossey.com
Anne Marie Mcinerney
Brendan Hoare
Brigid O’Connell Madden
Catherine Weld
My work aims to distil the experience of being in the complex and beautiful but fragile and vulnerable natural world, as it comes under increasing threat from changes in climate and the ravages inflicted on it by man.
Paintings originate from observational drawings in the landscape. Back in the studio, I work mainly in oils, allowing physical properties of colour, tone, line and surface to develop until the image offers a conclusion in terms of visual balance, and becomes imbued with atmosphere and sense of place.
My work can be seen at www.catherineweld.com and on Instagram at catherineweldartist
Christina Todesco-Kelly
"I am inspired by the drawn line especially in relation to life drawing and subjects around me that ‘draw my attention’ (such as my collection of Cacti).
Although a right-handed person, when studying at the RHA I started drawing with my left hand and have continued to do so ever since. It has leant a uniqueness and personality to my work that had been laying dormant and does not surface when using my right hand."
Instagram: Christina Todesco-Kelly Artist @ Reen Farm
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Claire Lambert
Atmosphere in the landscape is the subject matter that my current work focuses on. My inspiration comes from the stunning landscape around me in West Cork and the diversity of the light and the weather which create a forever changing source of endless possibilities.
Oils are the medium of my choice, the viscosity lends itself to the softness and subtleties that I want to paint.
The Irish language describes a different way off seeing the world. There are some no longer widely used Irish words that would best describe the atmosphere in my paintings. My intention is to do more research so I to can use these words with my practice.
Claire O ’Mahony
I am a mature Business Degree Student from West Cork. I was born in New York. I am inspired by American Folk Art. I mainly use oil with Media as buttons, wood, feathers, etc. I often paint faces. They are intricate but rewarding when finished. I find oil paint forgiving. I was honoured as someone said my work reminded her of Frida Kahlo. She too was inspired by oil and Folk art. I presume being born in a city detracts my mind from doing scenes like hills and oceans. Everyone to their own. I display my paintings in my hometown of Dunmanway, for other people to enjoy. Art from the heart.
Clare O’ Connor
I started painting in 1999. I have painted really since then. A big inspiration was Sean MacSweeney, I saw a piece of his work in a Sligo living room a huge piece, it was the first time I saw the use of the colours of the Irish landscape in a modern abstract landscape. It had the huge yellow of the furs bush and the tnagy green of grass. It completely inspired me. From then Ive been trying to do my own version of his brillant work.
Damaris Lysaght
The natural world is my passion. I am inspired by the colours, textures and atmospheres of the land/seascape and the amazing diversity of flora and fauna we have here in West Cork. I am a representational painter working outside directly in front of my subject, mostly in oils. Our wildlife habitats are under tremendous pressure now from land clearance for agriculture, roads etc. I hope to draw attention in some small way to the preciousness of what remains and the importance of conserving it.
David Seeger
The title of this image is “Look”.
I look. The image looks back.
“I see”.
Here, we see West Cork as it is “seen”, all around us
“We live in the era of the virtual.
I insist on staying with the live encounter with the artwork, in the real world , one to one , in the present moment.
Like dinner.’’
Dee Pieters
Deirdre O’ Donnell
I was born in Kilworth, and now live in Ballycotton, where the light and beauty add to the inspiration needed to create my work. I love painting, reacting to the immediacy of the landscape, interpreting the colours that abound, in a spontaneous way. Colour
excites me, be it in a still life or the world outside.
I paint mainly in acrylic but have worked also in oils.
Detlet Schlich
Dick Richards
I use my own photographs and found images as inspiration for, and as a component part of, work that addresses the intersection of landscape, history and community. I am particularly interested in the emotional and referential power of place. Many of my recent paintings start with a photographs taken inside abandoned houses in west Cork as I find a particular resonance in these locations. The technique I use to transfer the images into the paintings introduces the possibility of imperfections; an element of chance which adds richness to my process.
Emma McNulty
Painting the beautiful landscape of West Cork is the focus of my work. The varying shades and hues through the seasons offer a rich palette of colours to paint with. The simple shapes of buildings nestled in the landscape, old and new fascinate me with the blurring of sky, sea and land together.
Conveying the richness and textures of the landscape in my paintings is important to me as well as communicating the sense of place and season.
I mainly paint in oil and also enjoy using mixed media for plein air work.
Instagram: @Emma__McNulty
Fiona Hayes
Fiona Power
Fran Woolf
Geoff Greenham
Geoff Greenham has been a photographer for over 10 years having been a stained glass artist before that for 20 years.
He concentrates on no one particular genre of photography but tends towards landscape, portraiture and still life in his work.
Catching the right moment to make an image is a skill he hones every day, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, but the passion to turn an everyday object or scene into an extraordinary image is his constant aim.
He looks out through a lens to reveal something deep inside of himself.
For his Limited Edition giclée prints he uses HD pigment inks on a textured fine art photographic paper.
Geraldine Keane
Working in oils allows me to use strong colours in capturing the vibrant energy of West Cork.
More especially in harbour and marina scenes.
I hope my paintings give the viewer a glimpse of further expectation both in thought and expression.
This I hope will stir their emotions.
Gerard O'Callaghan
A lot of my work touches on what has gone before us on a human level but sometimes on a historical or cultural level also. I try to incorporate a depth both visually and physically into my work through the use of a variety of media and materials to enhance the overall theme of the work.
In “The Fathers” I wanted the action of digging to be not just representational but also symbolic of the searching and hunger sometimes within us to understand our past in order to make sense of the present. Combining drawing and collage together with acrylic and inks allowed for the building of layers and a sense of history.
Instagram: @gerardocallaghanart
Gert J. van Maanen
“In art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can’t explain” (Georges Braque)
For information: www.gertjvanmaanen.com
Heidi Krug- Wischniewski
Helen O'Keeffe
I paint the ‘landscape within’ - a combination of what I see around me and what I feel within. I am very lucky to live in West Cork, surrounded by strong landscape and a myriad of colours. Hedgerows with an abundance of wildflowers, the sea whose colour changes momentarily and many, many islands, some inhabited and others not - ruins hinting at the many generations long gone from here.
I paint in oils, usually on canvas or board. I sometimes begin with a sketch in the landscape, other times I use a combination of photography and sketching to capture the moment.
Website: www.helenokeeffe.ie
Instagram: helen_okeeffe
Helen Williams
I am an Irish artist living and working in Kinsale.
My artwork is generally colourful, energetic and impressionistic.
I aim to paint images that - combine reality, history, atmosphere and colour.
Ian Humphreys
I am interested in visual perception and exploration. Whilst my work has connections in observing and absorbing my environment I am not interested in depiction, description or a narrative. Over a period of time, intuitively, that which surrounds me becomes present in my work. Maybe the colours, light, texture, structure or the ambience. At present my major approach is of a horizontal movement. This evolves from the overall land-seascape of living by Roaringwater bay in West Cork. The colour is often influenced by the seasons of the year as well as the weather but equally could be about the nature of paint and colours itself. The process involves using wet and dry layers of thin runny oil paint over impasto. I search for the image using brushes, knives, scrapers, fingers, rags, sponges and other found tools. I work in quick bursts of activity over a long period of time. It is a mixture of being intuitive and then analytical until something is resolved.
Ina Mc Carthy
I began drawing on slate with chalk forming shapes with earth in 1961.
I continue to paint.
I was a printer, a psychiatric nurse, and a Miliner,and now I am a
Florist in Midleton.
I am curious,love to paint portraits,landscapes, and windows.
I need to feel passionate about my subject.
I find peace when I paint. before Lockdown my life was a frenetic existence.
I find technology overwhelming. During lockdown I have done 64 paintings. Mostly I use oils and watercolour.
My window painting is a testament of times past. Childhood memories of my grandparents in West Cork. The smell of turf, the Infant of Prague a symbol of their Catholic Faith.
Jacinta Darragh
Jackie Peterson
Jane O’Farrell
Janet Murran
Jenny Snashall
I have lived in West Cork for over 21 years. During this time, I have constantly been inspired by the magical light and intensely beautiful landscape that surrounds my home near Schull.
I work mostly in acrylic and oils, but also textile and watercolours. I use sketches and remembered images for my work. I paint both realism and abstraction paintings of the landscape.
This work was created during the pandemic. I wanted to express a feeling of peace and calmness in a time high anxiety.
My work has featured in the following books: C.U.H. “The Collection” and recently “Artists of the Mizen “By Chris O’Dell.
I can be contacted via the website: www.mizenartists.com
Jillian Neill
Patterns within nature are the focus of much of my work. I find visible regularities of form and shape found in the natural world fascinating, specifically how such natural phenomenon can appear to be random, irregular or indiscriminately created while at the same time be the product of an orderly systematic process which can be explained scientifically.
I also like using utilitarian or function materials to reference such natural formations and patterns: making the ordinary into something extraordinary. This piece is an embossment on fabriano paper made using multiples of oval shapes cut from plastic plumbing hose.
Jim Turner
Jo Ashby
My practice is an ongoing exploration of a dialogue between myself and daily observations of the sea and landscape. Either worrying away at a particular pre-occupation - something that has snagged my interest - whether that is a form of expression or the development of ideas around a particular subject.
I work in acrylics and mixed media. Acrylics offer the flexibility to incorporate other material through collage, for example, without affecting the integrity of the piece.
Whilst exploring a visual language, one must be true to oneself in the hope of creating a genuine link between artist and audience, inviting an emotional response to the work and subject matter.
Johanna Connor
2020 – brought with it Covid-19, a Global Pandemic which effected plans, scuppered schedules and demanded new beginnings…
Lockdown 1 presented me with the opportunity of introspection and retrospection. In my search for substance and sanity I took to the garden; to garden and to draw from life with the aim of finding reason, reconnection to the language of my expression, along with clues for prospective directions to go in my work. I was inspired by a heightened awareness of the shadow-play surrounding me during this time.
My probes with pencil, paper and photography lead my observations to evolve on to the canvas surface where I used acrylics as a means to consider and produce the prelude to a series of botanical meditations.
John Kelly
John Simpson
I make paintings that are strongly influenced by both natural and geometric forms. Compositions result from a combination of intuitive image making and proportional structuring.
I live on Sherkin Island where the environment provides me with many sources for painting.
Observations from rocky foreshores, sandy beaches, close and distant spaces, light and water, land and growth, calm and stormy weather which develop into many thematic variations.
We are all part of nature which never stands still – always changing – always in movement. I try to reflect that powerful dynamic in my work.
I enjoy working in a variety of ways with a range of materials – from large to small scale oils on canvas, to monoprinting, drawing, and mixed media on paper.
Kevin O’Farrell
Kieran Lettice
I make relief and intaglio prints that attempt to capture images of life and landscape in West Cork. I enjoy combining the methodical nature of print making with the uncertainty of applying colour. I like to keep the printing techniques as simple as possible. The goal of my work is to create an image that looks effortless.
Laetitia Catalano
Laetitia Catalono is a French born multi-disciplinary artist who settled in West Cork 18 years ago.
She works with a variety of media, from clay/ceramics sculpture to oil painting & photography.
Laetitia is deeply inspired by nature and the Asian philosophies of Taoism and Zen Buddhism.
Her current work is an invitation to take a break from the mind directed digital world & engage more fully with Nature.
She can be contacted directed via email : laeti.catalono@gmail.com
Or by phone : 087 4532982
Lesley Cox
Painting is the principal language of my practice. I use oils, finding the media and its behaviour as important as the subject represented. My process is one of layering, palette knife and scaping back to allow for intimate studies of texture, light and colour. My paintings are heavily influenced by personal mood and atmosphere and this is reflected in palette colour, textures and idiosyncratic painting titles, also vitally important is capturing the particular light that comes with our Irish climate.
My work addresses a number of issues relative to the relational process between traces and place, exploring themes of containment, isolation, loss of control, secrecy and memory. Material objects and landscape often act as a trigger, a site of personal and collective mnemonic return.
Longlisted for the RDS Visual Art Award in 2016. Short listed for Mother Art Award 2018. Collaborative residency in Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre researching the subject of collective memory 2020. 2016 BA in Visual Art - DIT, (Sherkin Island) First Class Honours. 2017 MA in Fine Art and Process - Crawford College of Art and Design.
Luisa McCarthy
Maeve Hickey
Maire O’Mahony
My work is inspired by family history and the domestic.
This piece combines personal family history of WW1 and remembrance of all those from West Cork who died in the conflict. The piece includes the round tower in the peace park at Messiness in Flanders and a verse from a poem which is inscribed on a stone slab there. The poem was written by Tom Kettle for his baby daughter that he never saw. The gold crosses remember my family members who died, and the almost invisible green crosses represent those who lie in unmarked graves.
Majella O’Neill Collins
Margaret Flynn
Margaret O'Sullivan
It has been my practice for many years to paint seascapes and landscapes in areas along the west coast of Ireland and also in the mountains on the Island of Crete. Wild and desolate places attract me. During the past number of years I have filled my notebooks with more considered ideas and images as working in the landscape allows me to observe the colours, shapes, textures,structures and lines in nature. What emerges from stored images in the brain are a series of abstract paintings.
Maria Dowling
I use oil paint to create harmonious, atmospheric paintings which have a quiet, timeless quality.
I am drawn to landscapes which feature water, the sea or rivers, I paint en plein air and in the studio and like to capture the light in the scene, the timelessness of a scene, a place full of memories as well as compelling present realities.
The one thing I would like to tell people about my work is that I like to explore the effects of light in my paintings and hope that they brighten the day for anyone who sees them.
More information about my work can be seen on: www.mariadowling.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mariadowlingart/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maria_dowling_art/
Marie Cronin
I am inspired by Irish culture, mythology, our connection to land, and spirit. I moved to West Cork twenty one years ago having spent many years visiting its historic sights. My work depicts part of the landscape I live in, which is surrounded on either side by fairy forts which are connected underground. The idea of ancient beings previously existing here, and their enduring and sacred presence, is what illustrates the heart of my work. I primarily paint with oils, though I use watercolours, inks and gouache frequently.
Mary Ffrench
Art has been a passion in my life for as long as I can remember. I returned to full time education as a mature student to study art. Since then I have travelled a wonderful journey of creativity.
I work from my studio in Innishannon.
I work mainly on acrylic collage pieces and textiles.
I am a member of both Cork Textile Network and Kinsale Atlantic Artists.
Since the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic my creative process has become more important to me than ever. I have re-discovered the significance of nature and our living environment. A profound realisation has crept into my creative process. I find it has become very important to include joy in every piece I create.
Mary Hurley
I live in Shanagarry & enjoy painting en plein air & also in my studio. I love vibrant colour & am fascinated by the play of light on the landscape & in interior spaces. I have been painting for over 30 years & regularly exhibit my work. I paint mostly in oils & acrylic / gouache and am currently experimenting with mixed media.
Sandie Hicks
Artist working in print, based in West Cork, Ireland. Sandie taught art in the UK for many years, mainly to students with behavioural and additional needs.
Originally trained as a printed textiles designer, Sandie has worked with a variety of print processes and approaches to design.
In current work, inspired by abandoned interiors, mixed print processes, primarily collagraph, are used in a painterly way to produce monoprints or small, variable editions that tend towards semi abstract compositions.
Alongside this, a preoccupation with textiles has endured. This is evident in work that explores the creative potential for collagraph printmaking to imitate lace and embroidered fabric and the surface quality of stitched, cut, and torn cloth.
These collagraph plates are constructed using Sandie’s own stitchwork, sometimes with added screen-print, to create an impression and atmosphere of old, decayed fabric.
Mich Maroney
I like to think of my work as inhabiting a liminal space between image, words and music.
I like to think of my work as inhabiting a liminal space between image, words and music.
CONTACT: michmaroney.com
Michael Greenlaw
Michelle Dalton
Michelle Dalton is a self-taught artist. She has been creating art since a young age and practicing professionally since her early twenties. She owns her own studio in West Cork and is also a member of Over The Line Studios. Her work is driven by the exploration of all and everyone. Meaning she likes to work outside the convention of narrowing herself to one theme or style. She is an incredibly curious person, interested in exploring the many complexities of the human experience and combining that passion with the materials she uses in her work. So she can illustrate skill within the traditional realms of painting and drawing but hopefully transcend the traditional by being diverse in her visual storytelling.
Niamh Hurley
I’m a graduate of the Crawford College of Art & Design. I have a background in Printmaking, craft-based fashion & textiles.
I enjoy working across a broad range of mediums, from painting to print, and textiles to mixed media. I paint mostly in acrylics. I love the vibrancy of their colours & the immediacy of their nature.
I am currently exploring the technique of acrylic paint pouring. I find myself instinctively drawn to the ritual of layering & am mesmerised by the surprising ebb and flow of every pour. My painting “The Wooded River” was inspired by my visits to one of West Corks richest geological tapestries - The Gearagh.
I was first introduced to the flooded forest, by a friend, about 2 years ago & I have been enchanted by its beauty & mystery ever since. I was instantly struck by the spareness of the landscape, with it’s lonesome, almost ghostly contortions of petrified oak.
Nigel Connell Bass
The subject matter for this work is inspired by the mass media handling of the 2020 “pandemic”, the relentless push of fear with numbers and cases daily.
As sovereign beings, we can choose what to allow into our lives. The choice of love over fear can be a conscious decision.
I like to recycle metal objects into many of my sculpture pieces. Early in December I had to replace the kitchen mixer tap, I was looking at it over my morning coffee and this concept came to me. Choose Love, Choose Life.
Nikki Tait
Nikki Tait is a printmaker who works near Clonakilty. Much of her work involves relief printmaking, and wood engraving - where small marks are made on the end-grain of hard woods, such as boxwood - in particular. She draws inspiration from the local environment in the Seven Heads, and is a member of Cork Printmakers.
Nuala Mahon
Patricia Curran
I’ve been a teacher of Art for many years, and of all the subjects I taught throughout that time, drawing was my favourite. My focus in this piece of work is looking at the structure of a beech tree. Rooks like to roost and build their nests in these trees and I discovered through drawing that the branches spread upwards like outstretched hands. It gives the lie to the phrase ‘bird-brain’ as both birds and nests are held securely by the tree, particularly in high winds.
Paul Forde Cialis
Paula Marten
Petra Reimers
Rebecca Keyser
Reddy O’Regan
At my stage in life I would have hoped to know a lot. Each day I realise I know and understand less and so my work is a serial questioning of my relationship with myself and others and most importantly the space I occupy.
Most of the work I show to others is photo based but I use anything which I feel will allow me to express myself.
The only value in my work is what you take from its presence.
Richard Winfield
I have lived in West Cork for 25 years and spend my creative time photographing the land and sea as I travel around Ireland. I am primarily a landscape photographer and use digital media to capture the beauty of the surroundings. Eventually the images are transferred to print on fine art photographic paper.
Recently lockdown has meant that I can only photograph the local area and I have been inspired by the trees in the Lee Valley. I like the abstract shapes and textures. I regularly exhibit in the Uillinn Members exhibitions and at North Shore, Sherkin Island. Further examples of my work can be found at: https://www.hybrasil.irish/
Robert Sobura
Rosemarie Cross
Rosemarie studies Industrial Design at Swansea School of Art. She has travelled the word extensively working as a cook/deckhand on charter yachts.
Now based in West Cork her love of the sea continues, adventuring with a variety of media capturing the ever-changing moods, textures and rhythm of the sea.
This piece describes the spontaneous, wild, free textures created by the sea on this “Grey Day”.
Sandie Hicks
Sara Hodson
Sara studied History and Art History at Plymouth University, followed by a MA in Irish Studies at Bath College in the UK. She moved to West Cork in the 1990’s where her mother’s family are originally from. She exhibits regularly and her work is in private and public collections worldwide.
Sara is a contemporary figurative painter who draws her inspiration from the West Cork landscape, rural life and equestrianism. Her oil paintings evolve from sketches and photographs taken on location which are developed further back in the studio. Her work often reflects the rhythms of the seasons and rejoices in a sense of place.
Website: www.sarahodson.com
Instagram @sarahodsonartist
Facebook @sarahodsonart
Sarah Iremonger
Shawn Rose
Sinead Barrett
Sonia Bidwell
The inspirations for my multi media work are usually from the literature and poetry of myth and legend. But during Covid isolation and bereavement I have been in reminiscent mood, This particular piece "The Long Row " is a symbolic representation of rowing my wee boat from Baltimore to Skibbereen. Up the lesser known stretches of the Ilen
To do this I weave in coloured yarn on a metal grid, adding fabric, relevant found objects and pictures. Here you will see my boat, fish, a thin tall lady diving at loch Hyne and birds I saw on my journey.
I have developed my work over 30 years and exhibited mainly in solo Exhibitions in Scotland and Ireland
I am happy to take commissions and can be visited by E mail appointment, johnbidwell48@btinternet.com at Dromig Farm House Skibbereen. My work can also be seen on my Face Book, Sonia Bidwell Artist site
Teresa Shanahan
I paint to give expression to what words fail to communicate. I rarely choose a subject that hasn’t in some way impacted on me emotionally, intellectually or spiritually, and I always hope that something of the symbolism/message, which I try to infuse in my work, will be understood by the viewer.
Subject matter can vary, but the fauna and raw natural beauty of West Cork-in particular the sea in all its moods, a tumbling waterfall, and magical waterside-never fail to inspire me.
I mainly paint in watercolor-a medium that can achieve a unique sense of lucidity and light. I use cold pressed cotton paper. Sometimes I work on canvas pre-conditioned for watercolor.
Tom Weld
My surroundings, mostly rural, have fascinated and excited me since childhood. I started to express this when I was studying Eng. Lit. at Uni, but using painting and drawing, untrained as a visual artist. I have worked in watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, pencil and primarily in oils. As well as loving land, landscape, agricultural land, and now since 2012 in Ireland, ‘wild’ land, I gradually became interested also to use painting to say other things about the world, fears, beliefs, hopes even.I often notice parallels between the work of one artist and another, in my own work too of course. But however much I admire many artists, I like to think much of my work is relatively original…
William Bock
The Rewilders are photographic portraits of people in specific natural environments in West Cork. In Rewilder IV we see Isatu, a woman from Sierra Leone who is currently seeking asylum in Ireland lying by the river bed in Loch Hyne. The Rewilder portraits reflect on the untamed and uncertain borders between the human and non human, between the native and migrant. Each work invites us to see our land and its communities afresh.
William Bock is an interdisciplinary artist born in West Cork and practicing between here and the UK. Bock recently exhibited his solo show Land Walks Land Talks Land Marks at Uillinn in February 2020.
Zizi Rincolisky
My artistic research is influenced by my psychoanalytic practice. I maintain a dialogue between the two fields in a multidisciplinary approach depending on the subject matter.
The starting point are texts in which I write about my experiences as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst working in different continents, countries and cultures; my personal desire is use this research and to give it a visual, spacial or audiovisual form.
My artistic work attempts to grasp the Thing (la chose) which is indestructible, cannot be put into words but causes the repetition of the subject's failure with the Other. It can momentarily open up but then it escapes again in the glimpse of an eye; this is the moment that I want to transform and transmit by my work.
