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Friday 26th, April, 2013
Meet the emerging artists from Creative Campus 2013
Mentored by Chloe Brenan and Siobhan Carroll, these artists took part in Creative Campus 2013:
Edel Fenelon is a 20 year old fine art student and produces work that samples a variety of different practices such as photography and drawing. The completion of a portfolio in 2010 gained her access into the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Currently In her third year of Media, her ideas continuously touch base with the natural environment, revealing and unearthing everyday occurrences that are usually inconspicuous and overlooked. The prime feature of her practice is to contrive and identify the unnoticed. These findings then represent and epitomize the significance of the original space and the relevance it holds to the artist.
Dzifa Hollwey is a third year Fine Art Media student studying in NCAD. Dzifa is interested in Photography with a love for black and white analog in particular. Her previous works have included portraiture, and the idea of restaging old family photographs. This theme of capturing a moment in time while taking it out of context is critical part of her current development.
Emily Veale is a third year Fine Art Paint student studying at NCAD. Her work has a strong relation to the land and depicts her response to the land via drawing, photography and mapping. Emily likes the aesthetic quality found in various use of line and relating this interest to the land by extracting various organic objects found within and creating her own charcoal and pigment from these objects. By doing this she has found the land is literally expressed in the work. Emily likes works from artists such as Morgan O’Hara, Claire O’Bryan and Richard Long and their use of line and presence of body captured within their pieces.
Cameron Ridyard is a third year media student, who has been studying art in and out of school since the age of 7. Of South African origin, he has experienced the art world in two vastly different societies. From this he draws the conclusion that his art should be focused on a strong visual appeal. This is due to two reasons; firstly his work has a heavy craft base, which is influenced by visual media through his studies, and secondly his philosophy is, that publicly funded art should have to appeal to all people regardless of class, age, religion or ethnicity.
Rob Carroll: “I explore the conditions of the camera, viewer and photographic process. This, as well as documentation, is on going in my practice. Rendered works within my own practice tend to come after reviewing collected material and may come in the form of 2D image print, video or installation. Other subjects may revolve around the human condition, (Philosophy, Physical, Social, etc.). John Hilliard and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s contemporary photography thrills me. Roland Barthes writings are a leading source of inspiration.”
Louis Deacy has been studying Art, Craft & Design since 2002 and achieved a FETAC level 7 in 2009. In the same year he also was accepted into NCAD where he focused on the Media discipline where he has filmed, edited and starred in such movies as Pool and Self-Portrait. His most recent works include Interrupting the screen and LD4SU.
Lately Louis has moved away from digital media to work on a lifelong fantasy; comic book writing, drawing and inking. This is his comic book debut.
Siobhan Fitzsimons is a 3rd year Sculpture student at NCAD. Siobhan is interested in large scale “environments” or installation pieces. It is central that her work allows the public to actively engage and participate in art making. It is also important that the work focuses in on the relations and discourse that form, and that the work is a kind of gateway for this to be able to happen. Therefore much of the aesthetic outcome is reliant on the audience or participants.
Kieran Bollard is a third year Media student in NCAD. Kieran’s work is mostly through photography and his interests include natural landscapes primarily working outside and in rural areas for his photographs. Previous works include studies in the Wicklow Mountains, the Dublin Mountains and other similar terrains layering them over urban extreme photos from countries such as India and Cambodia. The contrast between how things are and how they should be are integral to his work.
Fiona Campbell is a third year student currently studying Fine Art Media in the National College of Art and Design. Her work can best be described as contemporary media art that embraces traditional approaches to Fine Art. She is inspired by nature, architecture and the human condition. She enjoys investigating the everyday, and using art as a means to document the unseen changes in our environment. She creates mostly two-dimensional work which ranges from collage to digital pieces, using photography and drawing to pinpoint her ideas and document her thought process. She is interested in narrative, illustration and analog photography and aims to create contemporary art that reflects her personal interests and lifestyle.
Stephen Considine is a 23 year old artist studying Fine Art Media in the National College of Art and Design. Having not studied Art in secondary school, Stephen studied Fine Art for a year in Gorey School of Art from which he received direct entry into second year NCAD. Formerly a street artist, a lot of his current work involves street based photography and video. Stephen’s street performances focus solely on interacting with the public and using the ready-made urban environment as a setting or stage. Also a frequent painter, Stephen participated in the first ever “Skype painting” in August 2012 at the Peripheries exhibition in Gorey, Co. Wexford, in which he was instructed by none other then renowned painter Nevan Lehart.