Aideen Barry

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Aideen Barry
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Born
Aideen Barry

1979 (age 4445)
Cork, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Awards Aosdána
Website www.aideenbarry.com

Aideen Barry is a contemporary visual artist from Cork, Ireland.

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Early life and education

Barry was born in Cork in 1979. [1] She studied at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. [2]

Work

Barry works in video, animation, sound, installation, drawing, and performance and often deals with issues of domestic labour. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Career

Barry had an artist residency at the Kennedy Space Center in 2008, "during which she shot a film in zero gravity". [5] [7] Barry's series of polished aluminium sculptures, Weapons of Mass Consumption, was selected by critic Cristín Leach for the broadcaster RTÉ's series of website articles titled 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks. [7]

On 21 December 2021, she broadcast a collaborative sound piece on the Irish national television network RTÉ, titled Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ (the title consists of words in English, Irish, and an Inuit language called Inuktitut). This was part of a solo exhibition of her work at the Limerick Gallery of Art and commissioned by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. [8] [9]

Barry released a black and white, stop motion film about the history of Kaunas, Lithuania and its architecture, titled Klostes. [10] [11] It debuted as part of the Kaunas 2022 The European Capital of Culture. She designed a postage stamp for An Post in 2022. [12]

Barry teaches at Limerick Institute of Technology. [2] She is a member of Aosdána since 2019 [13] and in 2020 she was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy as an ARHA. [14] Her work is in the Crawford Art Gallery and the Arts Council of Ireland collections. [15] [2]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Arts Council Collection | Barry, Aideen". artscouncil.emuseum.com. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  3. "Aosdána". aosdana.artscouncil.ie. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  4. "Aideen Barry: an artist travelling under her own steam". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Five-star review: Domesticity rendered wonderfully weird". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  6. "Destiny and the Republic: Six artists on what Ireland is now". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  7. 1 2 Leach, Cristín (13 July 2017). "21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks: Weapons of Mass Consumption".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Watch: Aideen Barry's Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ". 20 December 2021.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Irish Traditional Music Archive and Music Network Announce New Work Inspired by Bunting Collection". The Journal of Music. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  10. Barry, Aideen (22 September 2022), Klostes (Mystery), retrieved 9 October 2022
  11. "Gig of the Week: Nothing compares to Galway Film Fleadh's Irish cinema showcase". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  12. Vallig, Marc O’Sullivan (19 January 2022). "Aideen Barry: 'I'm from Mayfield, so I have that Roy Keane thing'". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  13. "Aosdána". aosdana.artscouncil.ie. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  14. "Aideen Barry ARHA". 3 April 2020.
  15. "Tipperary artwork added to the National Collection". Nenagh Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2022.