Aideen Barry
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Aideen Barry is a Visual Artist based in Ireland. Barry was born in Cork in Ireland in 1979.
Barry’s means of expression are interchangeable: she is known for her performative actions, film, sculpture, drawing, and installation work. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in a number of Museums, Publicly funded centres of Contemporary Art, Private Galleries, and Art Fairs across the world.
Her performances make a play on visual fictions, often proposing illusion as a means of self-expression. Her work is peppered with humour but underlining her concepts is an attempt to find release from fear and anxiety. Barry uses folly as a means of exploring the notion of failure to achieve, engaging the viewer in humorous and unexpected ways.
The objects incorporated in her work are treated like a Wunderkammer, exposing the notion of play with the familiar and yet rearranged in an uncanny fashion.
Barry’s works meditate on the mysteries and metaphysics which govern her interest in das Unheimliche. Her work oscillates between the intensely personal to the quotidian to the exceptional, often simultaneously. Barry proposes the impossible. For a mere moment, the performance of Flight Folly attempts to imprint a memory of tangible unreal, beyond the bounds of reality, ponderings into the absurd. The common denominator of her work is an attempt to deal with anxiety with a release of accumulated tension.
Barry is the western regional representative for Visual Artists Ireland and has act and an advocate for numerous boards and charitable organisations since 2002. Aideen Barry has lectured in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology BA FA programme from 2008–2010 and is currently assistant Lecturer in limerick School of Art: Sculpture and Combined Media ( Limerick Institute of Technology
). She lives and works in the west of Ireland.
Barry has a number of solo shows and projects at Mother's Tankstation Gallery, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny ( 2010), Mermaid Arts Centre( 2009), Centre Cultural Irlandais (2003) and she has been selected for curated projects in The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Project Arts Centre ( 2010), Temple Bar Gallery ( 2007), The Royal Hibernian Academy ( 2009, Futures), Limerick City Gallery of Art ( 2009), Solstice Arts Centre
]( 2010) and Visual, ( 2010). Internationally she has shown work in Liste Art Fair, Basel ( 2010), The Wexner Centre, Ohio ( 2009), Moderna Museet, Sweden ( 2008), Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon ( 2009), Louise T. Bloudin Foundation, London (2007), Artscene, Shanghai (2005)and Project 304 Gallery, at Bangkok Thailand (2007). Future Projects include shows at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco ( group curated show) The MCAC in Northern Ireland, and in curated projects at The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Headlands Centre for the Arts ( San Francisco), in and the launch of a Public Art commission for the Department of Education and Skills entitled " Ludique".
Bibliography.
Mother's Annual 2010
ISBN 0-9554501-4-4
Noughties but Nice 21st Century Irish Art
ISBN 978-0-9553668-9-5
House Projects
ISBN 978-0-9549844-2-7
Dystopian Domestic
( Limitied edition Artists Publication)
Apatures and Anxieties
( Publish date November 2011)
Artists Website:
www.aideenbarry.com
News:
In April 2011 the artist announced that she is developing an iPhone app interactive art work that will be available to download from her site www.aideenbarry.com and through iTunes towards the end of 2011.
Barry’s means of expression are interchangeable: she is known for her performative actions, film, sculpture, drawing, and installation work. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in a number of Museums, Publicly funded centres of Contemporary Art, Private Galleries, and Art Fairs across the world.
Her performances make a play on visual fictions, often proposing illusion as a means of self-expression. Her work is peppered with humour but underlining her concepts is an attempt to find release from fear and anxiety. Barry uses folly as a means of exploring the notion of failure to achieve, engaging the viewer in humorous and unexpected ways.
The objects incorporated in her work are treated like a Wunderkammer, exposing the notion of play with the familiar and yet rearranged in an uncanny fashion.
Barry’s works meditate on the mysteries and metaphysics which govern her interest in das Unheimliche. Her work oscillates between the intensely personal to the quotidian to the exceptional, often simultaneously. Barry proposes the impossible. For a mere moment, the performance of Flight Folly attempts to imprint a memory of tangible unreal, beyond the bounds of reality, ponderings into the absurd. The common denominator of her work is an attempt to deal with anxiety with a release of accumulated tension.
Barry is the western regional representative for Visual Artists Ireland and has act and an advocate for numerous boards and charitable organisations since 2002. Aideen Barry has lectured in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology BA FA programme from 2008–2010 and is currently assistant Lecturer in limerick School of Art: Sculpture and Combined Media ( Limerick Institute of Technology
Limerick Institute of Technology
Limerick Institute of Technology is an institution of higher education in Limerick, Ireland and is one of 13 institutes that are members of the Institutes of Technology Ireland . The Institute has four campuses in Limerick City, one in both Thurles and Clonmel in County Tipperary and a regional...
). She lives and works in the west of Ireland.
Barry has a number of solo shows and projects at Mother's Tankstation Gallery, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny ( 2010), Mermaid Arts Centre( 2009), Centre Cultural Irlandais (2003) and she has been selected for curated projects in The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Project Arts Centre ( 2010), Temple Bar Gallery ( 2007), The Royal Hibernian Academy ( 2009, Futures), Limerick City Gallery of Art ( 2009), Solstice Arts Centre
]( 2010) and Visual, ( 2010). Internationally she has shown work in Liste Art Fair, Basel ( 2010), The Wexner Centre, Ohio ( 2009), Moderna Museet, Sweden ( 2008), Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon ( 2009), Louise T. Bloudin Foundation, London (2007), Artscene, Shanghai (2005)and Project 304 Gallery, at Bangkok Thailand (2007). Future Projects include shows at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco ( group curated show) The MCAC in Northern Ireland, and in curated projects at The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Headlands Centre for the Arts ( San Francisco), in and the launch of a Public Art commission for the Department of Education and Skills entitled " Ludique".
Bibliography.
Mother's Annual 2010
ISBN 0-9554501-4-4
Noughties but Nice 21st Century Irish Art
ISBN 978-0-9553668-9-5
House Projects
ISBN 978-0-9549844-2-7
Dystopian Domestic
( Limitied edition Artists Publication)
Apatures and Anxieties
( Publish date November 2011)
Artists Website:
www.aideenbarry.com
News:
In April 2011 the artist announced that she is developing an iPhone app interactive art work that will be available to download from her site www.aideenbarry.com and through iTunes towards the end of 2011.