Siobhān McDonald
STUDIOTOPIA Fellowship 2022 Ongoing

Siobhan McDonald commissioned by GLUON within the framework of Studiotopia: Arts Meets Science in The Anthropocene (2019 — 2022), an initiative funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission .
Supported by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Brussels Capital-Region.

Centre for Contemporary Art LAZNIA 2022: Gallery talk with Paky Vlassopoulou and Kosmas Nikolaou (members of the 3 137 collective, Athens) Dr Emilia Leszkowicz (Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk)
Oswaldo Maciá (artist, London and USA)
Siobhán McDonald (Ireland)
Ciprian Mureşan (artist, Cluj) talk @ciprian__muresan #gluon @cswlaznia @onthemezzanine @paky_vlas

JRC, EU COMMISSION, RESIDENCY 2021

Siobhan McDonald on residency at the JRC, EU Commission. This is courtesy of the Alumni Award from the EU COMMISSION. ‘Listening to Soil’ is being realised throughout 2021

Climate Whirl artist-in-residence 2021

Siobhan McDonald, Irish visual artist is selected as artist-in-residence for Climate Whirl arts program in 2020. The international open call received 168 applications by 18th November 2019 and the jury, composed by Jaana Bäck, professor in Forest-Atmosphere Interactions (INAR, University of Helsinki), Timo Vesala, professor in Meteorology (INAR, University of Helsinki), Henna Paunu, chief curator at EMMA (Espoo Museum for Modern Art), Paula Toppila executive director at IHME Helsinki and Ulla Taipale, curator of Climate Whirl had a demanding task to choose one applicant for the 2020 residency.

Arctic Circle Residency 2016

Siobhan was selected from an International call out to participate in the The Arctic Circle Residency programme to live and work for three weeks aboard a Barquentine tall ship in the waters of the international territory of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees latitude from the North Pole.

'From Stone age to space age.'

Residency at the European Space Agency 2016

Artist Talk

Siobhan McDonald. Sim Residency, Iceland. 2012

Studio, DC Dakota crashed aircraft, 2011

This project takes it’s starting point in an abandoned aircraft at the most southern tip of Iceland under the shadow of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano and glacier. I discovered the aircraft in April 2010 (6 weeks after the volcano erupted,) and it struck me as being a portal to another place.

The piece is inspired by the tiny holes bored through the walls of the aircraft by the effects of time. They seem patterned on various celestial constellations creating something like a concrete pinhole camera. The interior became a real-time filmic space for me where points of light slide imperceptibly around the inner surface as the sun travels from horizon to horizon. The holes are photographic in the finest sense. Each mark is a small black sun. And each dot is a repeat pattern of the sun’s image scaled down many million times (150 KL away). Each dot records the history of the sun’s ray on its journey to the earth and the projection seeks to show the inverse of the journey.

Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland

Studio, interior of DC Dakota crashed aircraft, 2011

During the month of August, I used the interior of this crashed aircraft as my studio. I filmed the movement of light each day from 10 am til late afternoon.

Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland