Evelyn Broderick
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4 October to 5 November 2022
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Evelyn Broderick
4 October to 5 November 2022
For this residency Evelyn Broderick will be building a chair to seat two persons with a connected coffee table with the intention that this built structure be the space to hold conversations about making. Some of these conversations will be recorded and included in an archive she is developing. Evelyn will invite makers of the area to come and talk to contribute to this developing archive about making. Through this archive Evelyn is developing a lexicon of the terms we use in making with artists and non artists, noting the language we use to describe the skills and techniques of the maker.
As part of this residency Evelyn plans to hold two workshops, one open to the public and one to a focused group to come and talk about making. She would like to open the conversation of what ways hand skills are developing and changing and the effects it is having on society.
Evelyn is a visual artist, maker and ceoltóir. Her practice is based on a concept of how socially we have become disengaged with making, disconnected from using our hands and disentangled with how to use materials. She develops socially engaged structures to shackle and bind sculpture, printmaking and sound together in order to question the role making has in a both social and collective context. Her practice is focused on an open dialogue in MAKING | THINKING that evolves and changes through the interactions of the communities she engages with.
A keen collaborator she is developing a practice that actively engages makers and non makers alike. Broderick believes it is now that we need to reconnect with the physical touch of making as a way to fully connect to a present and more fulfilled society. Broderick’s work looks at making and skills that are both alive and extinct. A traditional Irish flute player she recognizes that traditional music has a strong intrinsic connection to the head, the hand and the body, there’s a performative collective experience that takes place noting that there is a place for this in art making.
Evelyn Broderick completed a BA in Fine Art Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design and a Hdip in Art and Design Teaching at Crawford College. She then relocated to Liverpool to develop her practice. During her three years in North West England, Evelyn received an MA (First Class Hons) in Fine Art from Liverpool John Moores University, co- founded an artist and art education cooperative (Quad Collective CIC). Evelyn has recently completed a residency at UCD with the School of Social Science and Law and is currently developing a project: The People’s Shed.
Social Media: @evelynbroderick_