Aideen Barry

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Aideen Barry
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Born
Aideen Barry

1979 (age 45–46)
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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References

  1. ↑ "Heteratopic Glitch". publicart.ie.
  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".
  8. ↑ "Watch: Aideen Barry's Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ". 20 December 2021.
  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.


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