2022
Laura Quinn
Laura Quinn makes modular glass forms that encourage close human engagement and challenge the perceived restraints of the medium.
Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde received a BA in Structural Engineering from DIT (now TU Dublin) in 2010 and a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) and Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2016. They will complete an MFA at Bard, New York in 2025. Recent work performs an investigation of space and self, working through a personal body of research that looks at the theoretical and historical development of the figure of the architect.
The work pursues the formation of a visual and sculptural language. Elements sit together to form a kind of landscape and engage directly with the site in which they are displayed. Objects are often set into a composition of interrelationality. Their work most often references the domestic and urban site, and aims to dismantle the complexity of gendered hierarchies by consciously inhabiting the role of the builder, architect and interior designer simultaneously, collapsing the boundaries between them. The practice employs a combination of construction materials, household elements, and personal objects to this end. These are carefully selected, gathered, deposited and arranged on site, finding resolution in a sculptural staging that reconciles inherited architectural histories with the immediate physical environment, via subjective reinterpretations from a feminist/queer perspective.
Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde applied for a Golden Fleece Award to facilitate the development of new work through experimentation with new modes of presentation. Building on three significant recent solo shows, they plan to further incorporate moving display units and/or robotic components into the work, while also making studied video portraits of objects.
