Boondocks III
Born and based in Belfast, Sinéad is a member of Bbeyond, the Array Collective and BBDB weekly zooms. She works as a curator for Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, developing live cinema projects using the Ulster Television archive. Sinéad studied her BA Hons Fine and Applied Art in the Belfast Art College (Ulster University) and Post Graduate Studies in Art Room Methodology in Bath Spa University.
Participation in Transition: Boondocks III
21 - 24 September 2017
This project gave a cross section of artists from Bbeyond practical experience in working for a concentrated time of 5 days based in Hanover, Germany.
The invited artists - Sinead Bhreathnach Cashel, Jayne Cherry, Zara Lyness, Leann Herlihy, Colm Clarke, Brian Patterson and Hugh O Donnell, took part in 5 days of public performance, along with local artists in various location in Hanover, including The Day of Public Action on the Friday.
Jayne Cherry is an artist living and working in the countryside of Co.Down Northern Ireland and was brought up with a deep respect for the ground we walk on and all who breath upon it, so making work that stems from that is only very natural. As her statement would have us believe she inhales her surroundings, which she then mulls over before looking with new eyes and making work. Having been a nurse and garden designer explains her penchant for spiky, uncomfortable forms which often include death and other references to our own mortality. These then contrast with rotund, touchable elements she then 'stitches together' using skills which are new and old too her. Performance actions keep her attached to the realness of her existance and inform her sculptural and text work.
Zara Lyness is a female, Irish artist based in Co. Down. She has an integrated approach to her practice, combining sculptural, ceramic, mark making and live performance processes in her work. Her attention alternates between themes of relationships, marginalisation, and permissions, applying perceptions of memory and experience through a semi-autobiographic and gendered lens. This is underpinned, or undermined, with an internal cycle of dialogue regarding conceptual and material values, and the validity of outcomes, influenced by learned perceptions of what art is.
Léann Herlihy [they/them] is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploy alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies.
Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender.
