Address: Luisne, Monreal North, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
Email: kerinmaria@gmail.com
Nationality: Irish
Date of Birth: 12-07-69
Education:
2005- 2006 MA in Contemporary Dance Performance (2.1)
Irish World Acadamy of Music and Dance,
University Limerick
1992-1998 Advanced Diploma in Fine Art (2.1)
Painting and Graphic Design,
Dublin Institute of Technology
1987-1991 Degree in Business Studies
Marketing and French,
University Limerick.
Works in progress:
-Site-specific transdisciplinary dance, visual art and newmedia project at Raadi airport, Tartu, Estonia, Oct/Dec 2010 to be shown in the West Cork Arts Centre, July 2011.
-Invited to create a dance for film skyped live projected performance for the Fasnett Short film festival, May 2011.
-Editing a 3 minute short film of dance coalition SiteMeetings,160810, a sitespecific performance with Alexandra Boettcher and Maeve Collins in the gallery space.
Most recent works:
Political HEARTWORKS was a coalition process facilitated by Maeve Collins and I that include 12 Clare based artists being led through a movement/inner listening state and encouraged to move by the river edge in Ennistymon and use their Mobile Cameras as an extension of their bodies to photograph their presence. The outcome of images was edited was by Maeve and I into a photomontage for the Clare People (see 21—8-10) in a 2 page spread as a site for the new artwork.
Exhibitions:
Dec. 2009 Christmas Show: Courthouse gallery, invited by curator Trudi van Elsen to show drawings.
Oct. 2009 Mutual Exchange group exhibition, Alignment performance with Fiona Woods’ sculpture. Included a coalition with 5 other artists using mobile phones to partake in the performace.
Aug. 2008 Sculpture in Kells, Kilkenny Arts Festival Installation and photograph, site specific work in the priory with children.
July 2008 Trading Spaces – Exhibited photos on shopwindows
Nov. 2007 Selected for group Christmas show in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
June 2005 Sweet Bellharbour, monumental choreography installation, Corcomroe Abbey, Bellharbour, Co. Clare.
July 2004 Outdoor installation of studio presentation at Corofin Agricultural show with Ground Up 2 artists.
June 2004 Slide presentation of photographs at the Ennistymon Agricultural fair with Ground Up 2 artists.
Dec. 2003 Drawings shown with group exhibition of Burren artists at Russell gallery, Newquay, Co. Clare.
Sept. 2003 Exhibited with Rita Wobbe in Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr.
Sept. 2002 Showed drawings at the Liverpool Biennial, England.
July 2002 Courthouse Group show at Mrua Gallery, Bellharbour.
Dec. 2001 Solo exhibition chosen for opening of Glor, Ennis.
May 2000 Clare Artists drawing exhibition at Mrua Gallery.
June 1998 DIT Graduation exhibition at Arnotts Exhibition Space.
Performances:
June 2010 Sitemeetings 170610 6 sitespecific dance performances at abunDANCE, Karlstad, Sweden with Maeve Collins, final performance skyped live and projected to audience in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co.Clare.
Nov 2009 Alignment, 4 performances in response to Fiona Woods Sculpture assemblages in the Courthouse gallery over the month involved mobile phone video recording by audience.
June 2009 Inis Cealtra Festival, Mountshannon, Clare: Freeze, site specific live dance performance developed with Alex Boettcher and Jance Schuurmans.
January 2009 Public showing of Nigal Rolfe’s performance workshop outcome in Limerick College of Art Church space.
November 2008 Showing of performance in response to Nigal Rolfe’s workshop with MA dance and LIT art students, Limerick.
July 2008 Tading Spaces town window, Arts festival, Ennistymon
Collaboration with Sarah Fuller, Dog and String Puppets.
July 2007 Anois/Anois Solo performance in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon as part of studio artists group show.
April 2007 Mamuska, Daghdha Space, Limerick: ”Rattling 1” developed concept, choreography and video. Danced by Cristina Goletti.
April 2007 Mamuska, Limerick: Live performance in a hidden space projected simultaneously onto the huge screen in Daghdha dance space as I danced with Elfetheria Rapti.
March 2007 Dance Research Forum Ireland Symposium at University Limerick. Choreographed and performed with Pullco.
Nov. 2006 Lunch-time Performance, UL, Limerick- Alumni invited.
May 2006 M.A. performance of solos and ensembles, Daghdha.
March 2006 Lunch-time performance, UL, of MA work in progress
June 2005 Glor, Ennis, Co. Clare: Choreographed “Wall & Others”. Clare O’Dea dancer and Des O’Dwyer composer.
August 2004 Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr: Directed a performance “Plassey” for children.
March 2002 Mrua Gallery, Bellharbour, Co. Clare: Directed performance of “Easter Island” by clients of the Brothers of Charity, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
June 1998 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin: “Behind the Wall”, performance/Installation involving two dancers. Concept, choreography, installation and sound- Maria.
Commissions: Iniscealtra Festival, Mountshannon, commissioned with Alex Boettcher to create a site specific dance piece Freeze, in ’09. Performend live outdoor in the park at Mountshannon.
Sculpture in Kells Commissioned to do residency and create new work along with Aileen Lambert for Kilkenny Arts Festival, ‘08. Worked with the primary school children.
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Commissioned in August 2007 for Reproduced: choreographed dance/chant performance, dancer Mary Wycherley, vocalist Oscar Macerenes, sound recording: Jurgen Simpson.
“Sweet Bellharbour”, a multimedia temporary installation involving a sound recording of neighbours naming their deceased family members and 49 stitched white sheets in a triangular field, commissioned by Clare County Council as part of the Ground Up 2 art in rural context process, ‘05.
Funding awards: Support from Leader- 7000e, Clare County Council- 10,000e, Clare Arts Office- artists awards, and the ESB. Travel and training award, Arts Council ’09.
Residencies:
August 2008 A two week residency for Sculpture in Kells, Kells, Co. Kilkenny to create new work based on the Priory, Kells.
August 2003 A month at the Arts Centre, Aras Eanna, Inis Oir to create work for shared exhibition there with Rita Wobbe.
Presentations: GMIT guest lecturer 2003
DIT guest speaker, Life after College Conference, 2002.
Clare County Council funded artists talks, 2005.
Publications: Reviewed Alastair MacLennan’s actuation in Holy Hiatus, Cardigan, 2008 for publication by curator Ruth Jones with Parthain Books due out late 2010.
Article in Midlands Arts and Culture Magasine, winter 06, “The importance of artist-led networks…”
Press/reviews: Irish Times, The Observer, Sunday Business Post, Contexts, Clare Champion, Galway Advertiser, Kilkenny Post, VAI, Clare FM, Rattle Bag and Arts Zone.
Seminar project management:
Designed and organised Finding Portlaoise: Urban Artistic Interventions seminar
Chair: Fiona Woods. Talkers included Jenny Haughton, Ed Carroll, Sarah Browne, and
others. For Laois Arts Office, October 07.
Related Work Experience:
Facilitated movement and meditation every morning in a shared daily practice with
dancers and artists from October 2009 to August 2010.
Teaching art to children, adults, clients with learning difficulties, and part-time lecturing at 3rd level at GMIT.
Curating- Over 50 exhibitions in numerous galleries including The Courthouse
Gallery, Ennistymon, Co.Clare: Also The Belltable, Limerick, Russels Gallery, NewQuay
Co. Clare, Glor Gallery, Ennis, Co.Clare and Mrua Gallery, Bellharbour that I established,
curated and managed, 2000-2002.
Curator and project manager for the Irish section in the Independent section of the Liverpool Biennial, 2002 where I brought an exhibition of 12 artists incuding my own work.
Curator and project manager of Finding Portlaoise, urban artistic interventions,
for the Laois Arts Office, October 2007. Included 11 artists perfrorming in sitespecific
locations in the streets of Porlaoise. Followed by seminar.
Adjudicator for arts burseries for several County councils.
Art Advisor for Glor Gallery, Ennis, Co. Clare in 2001/2002.
Art Mentor working with over 40 artists, privately and through the midlands Arts Offices,
since 2004 having recommended best practice Mentoring recommendatins to the Arts
Council in conjuntion with Sinead O’Reilly, Offaly Arts Officer.
Other skills and workshops attended
Somatic Practice, Year 1 completed with Joan Davies, Maya Lila, Co. Wicklow 2007-2008.
2 week workshop with Nigal Rolfe, connecting students from the Limerick School of Art and
the MA in Contemporary Dance and alumni. UL. ’09. Attended movement and yoga twice
weekly with Antonette Spillane from 2007 to 2009. DARI workshop with Joan Davies in
authentic movement, 2009. Mark Taylor, Mind Body Centering, UL 2008, invited thruough
MA alumni UL. VTOS film-making course, Galway, summer ’94.
Advanced French, written and spoken after Erasmus year in Angers University, France, ’88.
Referees:
Mary Nunan, Director of MA in Contemporary Dance Performance,
Irish World Accadamy of Music and Dance, UL, Limerick.
087 6689600
Therry Rudin, Painting Lecturer (Dunlaoighre College of Art and Design,)
Ballybrit, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary.
087 2065111
