Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Arts Council of Ireland
Sonia Shiel
Sonia Shiel’s far-fetched works are vested in melodrama, special effect and various traditions of storytelling. They are composed of individual paintings and sculptures, including videos and animated sculptures, that share the central materiality of paint. Set in ungoverned, lawless environments: the wild west; the high seas, the animal kingdom and so on – her protagonists in their various pursuits, are confronted by nature, mortality, the mockery of chance, rules and other obstacles of their own creation. Idyllic scenes of industry, nature and society are underscored with preposterous violence, the inflated caricature of cartoons and the supra-governance of a natural law.
Sonia Shiel was born and lives in Dublin. She has had solo exhibitions at The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; The Model, Sligo; Temple Bar Gallery and Studios; Kulturbunker, Frankfurt; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and The RHA Gallery I and II, Dublin, among others. Forthcoming Solo Shows include FLOOD, Dublin; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Program Gallery/Foundation for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Volta, New York and the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. Recipient of the Arts Council Project Award, Shiel will participate in the 2014 Art and Law Program at Fordham Law School.
Residents from Ireland
Past Resident2014: Danish Arts Foundation
Molly Haslund
Molly Haslund is an artist working at the intersection of performance, interactive objects and sculpture. Haslund’s works span personal rituals, musical performances, workshops, and audience participation, making references to the pictorial arts, stand up comedy, literature and music. Lately the core of her practice has been solo performances, where she addresses existential and cultural questions.
Molly Haslund trained at the Royal Art Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen and Glasgow School of Art. In 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark, she showed her solo exhibition Rock Around the World, consisting of new and retrospective sculptures, called Coordination Models, placed in the city of Roskilde. During the time of the exhibition, performances took place in the streets and and other specific locations througout the city. At Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Nikolaj, she showed her musical performance ’ Shot John Wayne and other Etudes. Her performance In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, was shown as part of the seminar ‘Lecture Performance’ at OVERGADEN, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.