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Elaine Byrne
Please find below some samples of Elaine Byrne's work. A brief description about the artist can be found to the right. Click on an image below for details.
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About the artist:
Elaine Byrne recently undertook an MA in Visual Arts Practices with the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Previously, she studied Sculpture at the Kensington and Chelsea Art College, London and the Frink School of Sculpture, Stoke on Trent.
Elaine has exhibited in the U.K. and in Ireland, most recently in the Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2009; White Noise, Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery and Studio’s, 2008; Public Gestures in the Lab, 2009; and at the RHA Summer Exhibitions 2008 and 2009.
She has been the recipient of numerous prizes including First Prize for Three Dimensional Work awarded by the Kensington and Chelsea Arts Council in 2001 and again in 2003.
Elaines first solo exhibition "They Have Eyes" took place at the Leinster Gallery from 17th September - 19th October 2009.
Please see Past Exhibitions for details
Curated by Helen Carey, the following is an extract from the "They Have Eyes" exhibition text: "In her work Elaine Byrne enquires whether there is complicity between the object and the subject, with a tension that affects fear, desire, reality and memory, in creating what the viewer actually sees but contemplating the idea that seeing is a reciprocal activity. In her process, Byrne suggests that the articulation of fear and of tension within the banal is a position where the repeated story or word both articulates and realises the sentiment, that a game of jacks with its displaced soundtrack or a physical place rooted in a childhood past can evoke an irrational fear or a desire that on first look contains no threat but has enough traces to make them a place of menace. In the exhibition THEY HAVE EYES, immediately the question ‘who or what are they’ is asked – anxious looking around to see where ‘they or it’ follows."
Helen Carey 2009.
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