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Kingdom Come, CIT Wandesford Gallery, Cork

'Ruins' at Eva International 2012

Fergus Daly & Katherine Waugh, A Laboratory of Perpetual Flux, 2012
Doireann Ní Ghrioghair, Ruins, 2012
Marcel Broodthaers, Images d’Epinal, 1974
Photograph: © Eamonn O'Mahony/studioworks

Doireann Ní Ghrioghair, Ruins, 2012

Photograph: © Eamonn O'Mahony/studioworks

Recent Press

             Image of 'Ruins' at After the Future, Eva International, Limerick 

                 on front page of the Visual Artists' News Sheet July/August 2012

Review of Eva International by Sam Thorne in Frieze Oct '12

After the Future: Eva International Catalogue

                                             http://www.eva.ie/catalogue

CV

Doireann Ní Ghrioghair

Education:
2010: MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
2009: PG Dip in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
2005: First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast

Solo Exhibitions:
2009: “After the Excess”, Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland
2008: “A Landscape”, Fold Gallery, Kirkby-Stephen, Cumbria
2006: "A Few Spaces", Kilkenny County Hall

Group Exhibitions:
2013:
Creekside Open curated by Ceri Hand, APT Gallery, London

2012:

After the Future, Eva International curated by Annie Fletcher

2011:

Creekside Open curated by Phyllida Barlow, APT Gallery, London

Claremorris Open adjudicated by Chris Hammond of M.O.T. International

"I Am Not Here To Entertain You", Field Projects, The Bunhouse, Peckham, London

2010:
“Showroom”, Man Cannot Live on Bread Alone, Whitechapel, London
“Enjoy Democracy Responsibly”, Foreman’s Smokehouse, Hackney, London
Masters Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Chelsea Camberwell Wimbledon Post-graduate Salon, Flat Time House, Peckham, London
“After the Excess” – an installation selected for the re-opening of SHUNT, London Bridge
“Maybe I’ll Carry On Until it Comes to an End”, MA in Fine Art Interim Show, Chelsea College of Art

2009:
“This is the Game”, the Old Police Station, New Cross, London
“Invisible Means of Support”, Rochelle School, London
“Town & Country”, Across the Way Gallery in collaboration with Monstertruck G&S, Dublin
“Handle With Care”, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
“Reception”, Wimbledon College of Art
“Sold Out!” Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art

2008:
"(Three) Range Chicken", Freightliners Farm, London
“Paininaro”, Chelsea College of Art, London

2007:
"TULCA '07-Season of Visual Art", Galway
"FRED '07", site-specific art festival, Cumbria

2006:
"DesignFesta", Tokyo Big Site, Japan

2005:
“TULCA ’05 – Season of Visual Art”, Galway
“Cc-revolver: Live Art, Film & Multimedia Night”, Cork
Degree Exhibition, University of Ulster, Belfast
Epoch Exhibitions, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin

2004:
“Cojonudos!” Can Serrat International Art Centre, Spain

2003:
“Art in the Cathedral”, Art/Notart, Cork Artists Collective, Cork

Collections:
Chelsea College of Art & Design Library Special Collection, London
University of Ulster Permanent Collection of Art, Belfast

Residencies:
2004: Residency at Can Serrat International Art Centre, Spain

Bursaries:
2010: Shortlisted for the Gilbert de Botton Prize
2008: Travel & Training Bursary from the Art Council, Ireland
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005: Create Louth Funding, Dundalk Town Council, Ireland

Related Employment:
Oct 2010 & 2011: Fair Assistant, Frieze Art Fair, London
Oct 2010 & March 2010: Fair Assistant, Affordable Art Fair, London
June 2008 – Present: Front of House Staff, Design Museum, London
June 2008 – February 2009: Casual Gallery Assistant, One in the Other Gallery, London

Talks:

2012: Pecha Kucha, Design Museum, London

Pecha Kucha, Design Museum

http://vimeo.com/38841754

Filming of Pecha Kucha event at Design Museum, Feb 2012

Doireann Ni Ghrioghair at 28 minutes

New Folly

The Mystical Donut Totem, 2012, 23 x 13 cm, concrete & donuts

New Fashions

A Powerful Gentleman, 2012, 30 x 20cm, acrylic on paper

Concrete Dress, 2012, 30 x 20 cm, acrylic on paper

Pecha Kucha, Design Museum, Tues 28th Feb 7.30pm, http://designmuseum.org/talks

Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster,

60 x 40 x 40cm

New Drawing

Thessoloniki, 2012, pencil on paper

Review of 'I Am Not Here To Entertain You' by Chantell May Purcell

http://www.fadwebsite.com/2011/11/12/review-i-am-not-here-to-entertain-you-live-art-performance-at-the-bun-house/

New Sculptures at "I'm not here to entertain you" , Field Projects, the Bun House, Peckham

Doric Dick, 2011, concrete & plaster, 100 x 40 x 10 cm

Ruins II, 2011, concrete & plaster, 60 x 60 x 60 cm

Upcoming Show:

I Am Not Here To Entertain You

Curated by Karl Weill

At the Bun House, 96 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5ED

On Friday, 28^th October 2011, 7-9pm

Jack Catling, Lennie Lee, Vanessa Mitter, Nicola Ruben, Montini, O. B. De Alessi, James Gardiner,

Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Leo Koivistoinen, Alec Dunnachie, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Samantha Taylor

In September 1968, Karl Weill stated:

What is the performative tactic if it is not a calculated assault on the audience? It is forbidden to forbid. I want you to imagine, for a moment, an audience who are not entertained. I am walking backwards. Ennui. The slow rustling of a paper bag. Talking. A man swears. The crowd breaks out in laughter. Voices heckling……the audience falls silent. A fear of engulfment precedes attack. The shouting then begins. Intervention. All the while, my back is turned.[1]

www.bunhouse.com

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[1] Chronologie de l’Art, Issue 29, Autumn 1968

Follies and Fuck-ups

Folly Cock City, 2011, plaster & concrete on table


Folly Cock City (detail), 2011, plaster & concrete


Mushroom Folly, 2011, concrete & plaster, 14 x 20 x 8 cm


Ruins, 2010, plaster & concrete, 14 x 20 x 8 cm

Lighthouse, 2011, plaster & concrete, 30 x 15 x 15 cm

Creekside Open curated by Phyllida Barlow

'Mini-Folly' (centre sculpture, concrete & plaster) in

Creekside Open 2011

curated by Phyllida Barlow

www.creeksideopen.org

APT Gallery, London

MA in Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art 2010

left: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm
centre: See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 143cm
centre background: Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39cm
right: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm



left: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm
centre: See-saw, 2010 concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
background: Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm
right: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm




See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm





Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm



Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39



Various monuments and edifices I see around London
influence my recent drawings andsculptures. Particularly
the area of the city around Chelsea College of Art,
Tate Britain, Westminster and Whitehall, is saturated
with forms such as obelisks, columns, rectangular
plinths and monuments. In my work I recognise
these forms that speak of purity and austerity as
embedded in a history of dominance and control.
My sculptures seek to corrupt and suffuse the
sombreness of this male monumental architecture
with the frivolousness and flippancy of
consumer culture. I want to contaminate the serious
whites, greys, blacks and beiges with bright
lurid pink, yellow, oranges and reds.
I want to disrupt the precision and exactness of
architecture with playfulness and pleasure
and to deny these monuments of their
heroic autonomy and fixed
subjectivity to appropriate them
for my own means.

"Beyond Excess", SHUNT Re-opening, London Bridge, May 2010

After the Excess I, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess II, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5




After the Excess III, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess IV, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess V, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5






After the Excess VI, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5




After the Excess VII, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5