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about the art
Sinéad’s work looks at how we are conditioned to follow rules and adhere to regulations. Administration regimes in schools, colleges, offices, hospitals and public services compel us to fill out application forms and registration forms which ultimately reduce our identity to a series of numbers. She is interested in exploring this phenomena in particular the monotony of unimaginative routines such as queuing and waiting in line to be processed through these officious systems.
By making handmade paper from official application forms, numerical documents and newspapers, she creates personal and emotive objects that derive from systems designed to eliminate human personality and emotion. Through this approach she intends to highlight the consequential loss of innocence and individuality to an inevitable social conformity. Her work also explores our ability to be manipulated into these systems of control until we lose sight of our own individuality and creativity adapting to an everyday dreariness, losing our identity and becoming a tool in the industrial machine and inevitably just a number in the system. |
about the artist
Sinéad has just completed a B.A. in Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art and Design, but has nearly twenty years of experience in working in the education and business sector. She has experience in accounts management, budgeting, hosting events and conferences, managing personnel and working in partnership with organisations locally, nationally and internationally. In 2014 she returned to education to study Fine Art, graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2019. She was awarded the CIT Presidents Prize for outstanding studentship and also received a Crawford College of Art and Design Graduate Residency award for the Materials Store for 2019/2020. She was also awarded the Sample Studios Graduate Curatorial Residency Award 2019/2020 and her work is held in both public and private collections including Cork Institution of Technology.
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