Kathryn Maguire works in Sligo and London. She holds a Masters in Sculpture from Royal College of Art. A BA in Fine Art Sculpture from CCAD and MA in Art in the Contemporary World from NCAD. Her practice engages text, sculpture, video, and installation; making diverse cultural references linking the past with the contemporary. Exploring geology, the history of materials, building materials, and the circular economy. Her practice concentrates on lithics, minerals, mining, and knowing place from the mantle up. Maguire is examining rocks and minerals and fossils in various international locations. She has attempted to create new rocks and bricks on her residencies and to understand the experience of complexities of deep time visible in building materials.
She engages questions arising in the Greek Philosophers and an understanding of materials as means to both artistic production and revealing of laws in the Physical World. Using performance as ‘survey/workshop/lab’ a connection between artist and scientist is explored; creating and presenting demonstrative elements in the gallery and the field. Often an expert is involved, a source of knowledge rooted in real scientific phenomena. Attempts to reveal fundamental and invisible forces and energies, explored by scientists and experts alike, is central to Maguire’s practice. New works have used scientific technology to reveal the micron worlds that we inhabit and we host.
Residencies include: Culture Kings Artist in Residence, Kings College, London, 2023. Interface Science & Art International Residency; Pasajist Studios, Istanbul & Leitrim Scupture Centre, Leitrim, 2023. GroundWork residency in The Grange Projects, Norfolk, UK 2022. The London Metallomics Group, The Magnetism Group, Artist in Residence (R&D), CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, 2020. Rathfarnham Educate Together National School, Artist in Residence 2019-2020. Fish Factory, East Iceland, funded by Arts Council/DLR Council, 2019. Sim House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2018/2014.
Awards: Kings Culture Artist in Residence in Kings College 2022/23. Arts Council Artist in the Community R&D Award with mentoring by Vaari Claffey 2022. Spatial Structures Artist Mentoring with Workhouse Callan 2022. .Arts Council Agility Award, 2021. Arts Council Travel & Training Award 2019. DLR CoCo Creative Bursary 2019. DLR Co Co Artists Bursary 2016. Arts Council Artist in the Community Award 2016. Firestation Studios Sculpture Bursary Award 2016. Artists Tax Exemption 2011.
Selected Exhibitions: Clifden Arts Festival 16-Sunday 24 September 2023. Silt & Other Matters, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, London, 2023. Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. 2022. Wild Stone, Van Gogh House London, 2022. RCA Masters Degree show, Battersea, London. 2022. Earthly Bodies, Angel, London 2022. Impressions, Safehouse 1&2, London, 2021. Social Commons, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 2019; Social Fabric, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 2018. Nasty Women, Pallas Projects, 2017. We Claim (banner & chapbook), Eden Quay, 2016 /2017. Terra Incognita, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2016. The Balloon, Rawson Projects, New York, 2014. Interactivos12?, Science Gallery, Dublin, 2012. Dublin Contemporary 2011. Notes of Protest, Wyspa Institute of Art, Poland, 2010. No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, 2010 & Dia Centre, New York, 2009. Video Killed the Radio Star, RHA, Dublin, 2010.
Public Artworks (Temporary and Permanent): ‘The Mourning Band’, Swords, Dublin 2023 (permanent). ‘We Claim’ banner on Abbey Theatre building Eden Quay 2017. US Again and The Exchange, floating artworks on Grand Canal 2013.
Memberships: Interface Inagh, Artlink at Fort Dunree, Visual Artists Ireland. a.n . Geological Association. Stone Club. Sligo Field Club. Irish Geological Association membership.
‘Desire is’ was purchased by OPW for permanent exhibition, OPW HQ, Merrion Square.
* Interview and details of Icelandic Residency
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