 Kiera O’Toole_ ‘Felt Map of Manorhamilton’, 2021, digital collage of megalithic gravestone, site-responsive wall drawing on handball alley and drawing, 25 x 38cm
Research residency: LEER (Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research 2020/2021, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland This text is underpinned by my current PhD practice-led research which examines if drawing has the capacity to record the ‘emotional vibrations’ of a site’s atmosphere which can act as an active agent and co-creator of the drawings. Situated within contemporary drawing, the research draws from practitioner-researcher Deborah Harty’s premise that ‘drawing is phenomenology’ (Harty 2009). Based on Harty’s research, the processes of drawing in-situ and site-responsive drawing act as devices for perceiving and recording the hidden felt aspects of a site. Through my tacit and material knowledge and my “pathic sense and emotive modality of knowing”, the site-responsive drawing presents the moment of withdrawal and bears witness to the act of ‘being there’ or, I am, to quote Harty, “situated, a mark inhabiting space and time, an embodied blot.” (Harty 2015, 51) http://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/programme/residencies.html @leitrimsculpturecentre @kieraotooleartistresarcher @irisharts_review www.kieraotooleartist.com #irishartsreview, #drawing, #contemporarydrawing, #experimentaldrawing, #sitespecificart, #drawingcentre, #Art, #Artwork, #irishart, #traditionaldrawing, #drawingexhibition, #draw, #artfair, #drawingartfair, #contemporaryart, #drawingdecentered, #paper, #dessin, #zeichnung, #dieziehung, #grafika, #loughboroughuniversity
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Kiera O’Toole, ‘Wonder Stones’ , 2mins 42 secs, Castle Street. Sligo, 2021
Delighted to be invited to exhibit in this year's Cairde Arts Festival. Thanks to Yvette Monahan and Tara McGowan for the invitation and to Hannah and Christian for their installation expertise and to everyone involved in the production of Cairde Arts Festival. https://www.cairdefestival.com/events/far-in-far-out @kieraotooleartistresarcher @cairdefestival www.kieraotooleartist.com #drawing, #contemporarydrawing, #experimentaldrawing, #sitespecificart, #drawingcentre, #Art, #Artwork, #irishart, #traditionaldrawing, #drawingexhibition, #draw, #artfair, #drawingartfair, #contemporaryart, #drawingdecentered, #paper, #dessin, #zeichnung, #dieziehung, #grafika, #loughboroughuniversity |
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