Yvonne McGuinness - Amharc Fhine Gall 11th Edition

Draíocht in collaboration with Fingal County Council Arts Office
Wed 22 Nov - Sat 03 Feb 2018 Ground Floor Gallery
‘Holding ground where the wood lands’
Draíocht, in collaboration with Fingal County Council Arts Office, is delighted to announce a new commission from visual artist Yvonne McGuinness for the 11th edition of Amharc Fhine Gall. McGuinness’ practice encompasses performance, video, photography, sewing, writing, sculpture and context-specific installations. She has an interest in embodied experience of place and in re-imagining the everyday by devising projects that create dynamic moments of connection to place and community. Her work is immersive, collaborative and is often a catalyst to generate other narratives for its participants.
For this commission, McGuinness will work with a culturally diverse group of local young people from D15's Foroige, exploring themes of identity, place and their connection to it. This collaboration during the autumn months will result in a site-specific performance and film installation to be shown in Draíocht’s Ground Floor Gallery - itself a two-way mirror between ‘the art world’ and ‘the real world’
Amharc Fhine Gall (Fingal Gaze) is an annual exhibition funded by Fingal County Council’s Arts Office, in collaboration with Draíocht. The exhibition was initiated in 2004 to provide a platform for visual artists from or living in Fingal. Yvonne McGuinness grew up in Portmarnock, Co Fingal.
www.yvonnemcguinness.com
Draíocht's Galleries are open Monday to Saturday 10am - 6pm. Admission is Free.
Curated by Sharon Murphy, Draíocht Curator-in-Residence 2017.

[@barbarajacobsen4751]

I got this from begging to end I let friends see this and didn't get it at all well done Yvonne I'm on your level

[@garykearney3273]

Can't believe I missed this. 5 min walk from me gaff. I hope Yvonne exhibition comes back to the blanch.

[@lani2023]

The way I interpret it is the first bit where you saw screaming happening to an empty room towards other screens is sort of like what society feels like it's become We all scream these things into something of a void without any real human connection. While on the later screens it shows what real human connection and communication has looked like since the dawn of time something in the middle has been lost though. That's probably not what she was thinking but then again she's an artist and she knows that people have various interpretations. She's fantastic. I have a lot of respect for her. She'd do great to come here to Las Vegas and do something. Well maybe not now with a pandemic but there's definitely a community of people who would appreciate her work, even though we seem like a barren place. I'd assure her that as the desert is not a barren place despite what it looks like neither is Las Vegas nor the art community.