Mary Sullivan 2023
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1 March to 1 April 2023
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Mary Sullivan
1 March to 1 April 2023
Saturday 1 April at 12 noon
As she concludes her residency at Uillinn, Mary Sullivan will discuss her residency and her current work leading to her solo exhibition at Uillinn later this year.
Mary Sullivan is an artist and Bere islander whose work turns a critical lens on the complex history of women’s labour, and island life and identity. During her residency at Uillinn, Mary will continue to work towards her upcoming exhibition at Uillinn in November 2023. From the Inside Out and the Outside In is a solo exhibition comprising videography, sculpture, drawing and performance. It explores people’s perceptions of island living, woman in the domestic sphere, and our mental health.
The first thread of the From the Inside Out and the Outside In, supported by Cork County Council, was exhibited as part of a group exhibition, Fragments in Constellation in the O’Driscoll Building during the Skibbereen Arts Festival in 2022.
Mary also completed a project with 24 women on Bere Island titled The Hold, generously supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create – the national development agency for collaborative arts. This work was exhibited on Bere Island in 2022. She went on to make a book from this work which will be officially launched at the first ever Bere Island Arts Festival in September 2023.
Mary is currently working with local people on Bere Island to gather stories of women of past generations. She hopes to do a series of works around this in the future.
Biography
Mary Sullivan graduated from the BA (hons) Visual Art Degree Programme, Sherkin Island in 2018. She was the first recipient of the RDS Taylor Art Award as a graduating student from DIT for her work At Home, At War. Mary has exhibited in institutions in Ireland and the United Kingdom, most notably in the RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) Gallery, Dublin and in the The Leydon Gallery, London. In 2019, she produced and exhibited her debut solo exhibition Breathe in the underground rooms of a disused military shelter on Bere Island which received critical acclaim. She is currently working with Create, Ireland’s national development agency for collaborative arts from whom she was awarded the Graduate Research and Development Award with mentoring from artist Jesse Jones.
Image: Mary Sullivan, From the Inside Out and the Outside In (detail), glass spheres, metal table, 2022, image courtesy of the artist
West Cork Arts Centre is proud to be supported by the Arts Council and Cork County Council.