A layering of space and time, my work interplays found elements and photography. Traces of places,
remnants
of
spaces___
A sense of flux, capturing an environment that is in transit and transformation is contrasted by a sense of presence and slow observation. I am interested in the intermingling invisible forces that affects our environments and actions.
I capture elements on the edge of abstraction, stretching the usual register of perception. I present an ambiguity, so the viewer has space to recreate and move beyond the visible. The work often implements an optical oscillation, through this it subtly suggests a malleable, unfixed reality.
My work captures a place in process, simultaneously constructing and deconstructing. It highlights a betweenness, a binary, where definitive boundaries dissolve . . .
. . ,
Through correlating photographic processes and re-presenting materials often discarded and overlooked, I prise open a gap.
An opening, to consider an alternative___
remnants
of
spaces___
A sense of flux, capturing an environment that is in transit and transformation is contrasted by a sense of presence and slow observation. I am interested in the intermingling invisible forces that affects our environments and actions.
I capture elements on the edge of abstraction, stretching the usual register of perception. I present an ambiguity, so the viewer has space to recreate and move beyond the visible. The work often implements an optical oscillation, through this it subtly suggests a malleable, unfixed reality.
My work captures a place in process, simultaneously constructing and deconstructing. It highlights a betweenness, a binary, where definitive boundaries dissolve . . .
. . ,
Through correlating photographic processes and re-presenting materials often discarded and overlooked, I prise open a gap.
An opening, to consider an alternative___
Kate McElroy is a multidisciplinary artist from Limerick and based in Cork City. She received a first class honours masters degree from Crawford College of Art and Design (2021). She is a member of Sample Studios and previously of A4 sounds studios. (2015 - 2017) She received her honours BA (2013) and an honours Higher Diploma (2014) from Limerick school of Art and Design.
She is the current artist in resident at Uillinn: West Cork arts centre where she is holding an open studio exhibition ‘Open In_Site’. (19 June - 11 August) She was one in four selected artists for ‘And, if we observe the present’ Catalyst Art Centre Belfast as part of Future(s), Belfast Photo Festival, 2021. She is part of a newly formed artist collective ‘Inter_Site’ who had two recent shows in the Marina Market, Cork City and ‘Oileán’ in The Lord Mayors Pavillion, Fitzgerald’s Park curated by Sinead Barret, as part of Cork Harbour Festival (2021). They have recently been awarded project funding and are working towards an upcoming event based exhibition on Spike Island in September 2021. Selected publication contributions include photographs and texts in ‘Cogito’ UCD annual philsoc publication and ‘Think Eco’s’ Wildlife Publication funded by the arts Council NI. She has been long listed for the RDS awards, 2021.
She received a travel and training award (2017) and was artist in residence in Lasanna, Nepal (2017). She was selected for an interactive international project 'Building Bridges' (2017 - 2019) curated by Ushmita Sahu which toured Delhi, Kolkotta and Bangalore, India and Yangnon, Myanmar. She had a selected solo exhibition ‘Effusion’ in Clonakilty Arts Centre (2016) and a 2 person show ‘Plexus’ in Galway City Gallery (2017).
She is the current artist in resident at Uillinn: West Cork arts centre where she is holding an open studio exhibition ‘Open In_Site’. (19 June - 11 August) She was one in four selected artists for ‘And, if we observe the present’ Catalyst Art Centre Belfast as part of Future(s), Belfast Photo Festival, 2021. She is part of a newly formed artist collective ‘Inter_Site’ who had two recent shows in the Marina Market, Cork City and ‘Oileán’ in The Lord Mayors Pavillion, Fitzgerald’s Park curated by Sinead Barret, as part of Cork Harbour Festival (2021). They have recently been awarded project funding and are working towards an upcoming event based exhibition on Spike Island in September 2021. Selected publication contributions include photographs and texts in ‘Cogito’ UCD annual philsoc publication and ‘Think Eco’s’ Wildlife Publication funded by the arts Council NI. She has been long listed for the RDS awards, 2021.
She received a travel and training award (2017) and was artist in residence in Lasanna, Nepal (2017). She was selected for an interactive international project 'Building Bridges' (2017 - 2019) curated by Ushmita Sahu which toured Delhi, Kolkotta and Bangalore, India and Yangnon, Myanmar. She had a selected solo exhibition ‘Effusion’ in Clonakilty Arts Centre (2016) and a 2 person show ‘Plexus’ in Galway City Gallery (2017).
