The Boglands are Breathing, presents a new body of work that explores the role of boglands as both repositories of our past and guardians of our future.
'Traces of Air' at Uillinn, West Cork Art Centre.
Features 'The Sound of Trees,' a series of new paintings exploring plants and trees, from the changing light recorded in forests over the past number of months, to Irish peatlands - ancient landscapes that are the sole custodians of unique plants that have accumulated over many millions of years. Some of these works seek to capture the innate environment-sensing capacity of plants, trees and underground networks as witnesses of history. They hold an embodied memory of time, reminding us of how time and memory shift and that everything is connected by substance, form and history. With thanks to Creative Ireland and the Arts Council. On view until 20th April 2021.
https://www.bridgeprojects.com/programs/echo-locate-siobhan-mcdonald
Bridge Projects
Online Event: https://www.bridgeprojects.com/programs/echo-locate-siobhan-mcdonald
Thursday, July 2, 2020
We invite you to join Bridge Projects for its continuing virtual Echo/Locate series with Siobhán McDonald, an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. The artist will discuss her film “Breathe” that is featured in To Bough and To Bend, which entwines haunting images of studies in human breath with images of medicinal plant remedies from Trinity College Dublin’s archives. Please join us in a conversation with the artist about the role of art in science and conservation. A Zoom link will be provided with RSVP a day prior to the event. Note: Echo/Locate events are interactive and communal. Audience participation will be encouraged.
Study for a Volcano
Siobhan McDonald
BOZAR 2020
Film on Glass prism, 2 minutes, 20 seconds film. Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption. Prism, smoke, ash and air particles.
An installation about the co-existence between the lungs of the earth, humans and plants. It explores European volcanoes and points to the cycle of the earth breathing within the carbon cycle and our ecosystems in this time of climate emergency. Edited by Christopher Ash.
Trinity Creative Challenge Showcase 2018
Artist Siobhan McDonald talks about her project ' Future Breath' which was funded by the Trinity Creative Challenge award 2017. Her event took place at Science Gallery Dublin on December 2018 and Limerick City Gallery in February-March 2019.
Searching for a Remedy
7 minutes film, projected onto Herbarium specimen pressed paper, LED projector.
Siobhan McDonald, 2019
‘Searching for a Remedy’ a short film piece by Trinity College Artist in Residence Siobhan McDonald communicates the climate emergency by ‘blackening out’ plant species to depict extinction of species due to climate change in one of the historical herbal collections belonging to Trinity College Herbarium.
'At the Edge of Visibility' 2016.
4 minute film by Siobhan McDonald, (shot in the Arctic Circle in 2015.) Edited by Christopher Ash. Sound composition by Irene Buckley containing sounds collected in the Arctic by Siobhan, sounds of dying glaciers recorded by Professor Chris Bean and sounds recorded in space by ESA.
This film is exhibited as part of Siobhan McDonald's solo show 'Crystalline,' at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. See reviews: Apollo and The Guardian Link to Press release for Crystalline by Siobhán McDonald
Fault Lines: An Afternoon Symposium
A collaborative event organised by Void Gallery and Paper Visual Art Journal - supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. Contributors were Willie Doherty, Siobhan McDonald, Darran Anderson, and Gareth Doherty. The event was part of the Void Engage education programme that supports each exhibition - in this case Opened Ground - an exhibition that examined the socio-political impact of borders.
Only Connect 2015: Deep Songs
In March 2015 Siobhan McDonald was invited to make a film for Susan Stenger’s Deep Songs, commissioned for nyMusikk's Only Connect Festival Of Sound and premiered at Fabrikken 5 June. With Hardanger fiddle players Nils Økland and Britt Pernille Frøholm, Stenger on electric bass and alto flute, field recordings by Professor Chris Bean (Seismologist at University College Dublin). Deep Songs is supported by Norsk kulturråd. Funding by Culture Ireland.
Eye of the Storm, The Dock, 2012
6 minute film documentation of the making of the exhibition 'Eye of the Storm'
This project has been supported by The Arts Council, Visual Art Bursary
Rhythm
Siobhan McDonald spent several weeks working on a piece that is featured at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon. This video documents her process while making the piece Rythym at the RHA studios. Seism opens In September at The Dock and runs through to the end of October, 2012.
"Rhythm"
Siobhan McDonald 2012
Speaker, Volcanic sound wave, tree branch and Indian ink.
‘Elemental’. A 3 minute film documentation of 350 million year old Coral Fossils by Siobhan McDonald Music composed by Irene Buckley Film work and editing with thanks to Jose Miguel Jimenez, Independent film maker and Theatre Director