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Ard Bia Arts Space is delighted to announce
an exhibition of new work by Aideen Barry.
The artist will open her month long show
titled ’Anaxiphales ‘ with a
live performance on the opening night, alongside
an exhibition of new drawings and a video
documentation of previous live art events.
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In "Anaxiphales" Aideen Barry
explores how her work evolves from the drawing,
to the object and to the performance.
The gallery will become a space for all
the components of Barry’s work to
be viewed together.
‘The drawing is the first stage into
the investigation of my concept’ AB
The very nature in which Barry constructs
her drawings is performative, she has laboriously
sketched them in the manner of an illustrator,
and they become both records and art objects.
The show is based on the ideas of the pre-Socratic
philosopher Anaxiphales whose distinguishing
belief was that time and motion were connected
and, by certain interpretations, the same
thing. The philosopher was preoccupied with
the notions of cyclical processes in nature
and believed that man tried to mimic cyclical
motion in his own behavior.
The artist Aideen Barry, is too, concerned
with the notion of cyclical action in her
performances and installations. The reoccurring
theme of "The Wheel" is self event
in the drawings in this show. The body in
an enduring ritualistic state, the spiral
trajectory of her preferred raw material,
black ink, the roller skate, the windmill,
the treadmill, and the umbrella, narrate
the very transient cycle of a performance
action.
Since graduating from GMIT with a Bachelor
of Fine Art in 2002, Aideen Barry has received
considerable attention. Her work “The
Futility of Conveying Emotion” has
been shown in Paris, Lorient, London and
Shanghai. In 2004 Barry received the Tyrone
Guthrie Award, the Sculpture in Context
Prize and a Galway County Council Bursary
from the Galway County Arts Office as well
as the top prize at The Claremorris Open.
In 2005 Barry represented Irish Contemporary
Performance as she was invited to part take
in Cork 2005, The European Capital of Culture.
While on residency in the Backwater Artists
Studios in Cork she performed two new works
commissioned by “Bodily Functions”,
titled “Whatgoesaroundcomesaround”
and “Root”. In August 2005 she
performed her award winning performance
and installation “Storm Reader”
to an audience of two thousand people.
Aideen Barry is currently lives in Co. Galway
and is working on several large-scale pieces
for 2006 as well as pursuing her Master
in Visual Arts in Dublin’s Dun Laoghaire
College of Art and Design.
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The artist has been kindly supported by
the Galway County Council Arts Office.
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