The Curfew Tower, March/April 2010

                           The Curfew Tower in the centre of Cushendall, Co. Antrim was built by Francis Turnley in 1817 to confine local riotous prisoners. Dan McBride, an army pensioner, was given the job of permanent garrison and was armed with one musket, a bayonet, a brace of pistols and a [...]

Posted at 11:25 am on 10/05/2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: drawing, installation, photography, residencies | Tagged: , , , | read on

106.5 FM, re:public, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, March 2010.

         A  programme of events asking the question, can something happen in public again? In collaboration with GradCAM, the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media in Dublin, and guest curator Daniel Jewesbury, the gallery at TBG&S became a forum where the public can meet with a range of artists and thinkers [...]

Posted at 2:45 pm on 20/03/2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: installation, projects, sculpture | Tagged: , , , | read on

About

 As a multidisciplinary artist Sinead Conlon examines the peculiar inter-relationships between art, public/private space, audience and territory, also present is the theme of place. Since graduating from Limerick School of Art and Design she has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland including Tulca ’08, Fix Live Art Biennale ’09 and a solo show re:REM at Ad Hoc Gallery, Belfast. She has received numerous residencies and was selected as artist in residence at Roscommon County Library as part of Art @ Work ’09. Conlon’s recent artworks have addressed particular concerns regarding mobile, temporary architecture, participation and the occupation of land by means of legal loopholes. She has an explicit interest in the politics of public space and the methods citizens employ to interpret and express their relationship to the places in which they live. Through her relational practice, Conlon shows a sincere interest in developing artworks that create unique situations whereby the public become accomplices to the work.

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