Kate McElroy 2023

Kate McElroy
29 November 2022 to 2 January 2023

Studio 3
Open Studio – Saturday 17 December

Kate McElroy is a multidisciplinary artist currently based between Cork and Limerick. She received a first class honours masters degree from Crawford College of Art and Design (2021).

Kate will use this time at Uillinn to experiment with the interplay of photography and installation elements in her work.

Kate examines the homogenization of place and the industrialization of space and time. Capturing the development of new glass and steel architecture in major cities such as Dublin, London, Cork and Lisbon she contrasts this with images taken from ruins from a post-industrial site in Barreiro, Portugal. She will use this opportunity to explore the interplay between images, found waste material, sound and text to create environments which capture the space between construction and deconstruction. She questions this current moment of precarity between our natural and built environments.

She does this through a lens of seeing the world in a constant state of interrelated processes of flux. Rooted in process philosophy, this perspective has agency as it means our choices have affect.

https://www.instagram.com/kate_mcelroy_/

www.katemcelroy.com

WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Cork County Council in making these residencies possible.