idirlinn, shifting silence

In this exhibition, both process and materiality overlap through materials that embody themes of metamorphosis and transformation. 

It asks us, how can we dissimagine the inevitably of things and form new layers of meaning, in order to build new worlds together? 

Curated by Sheena Barrett and Shannon Carroll 

Artist Biography 

Rosie O’Reilly is visual artist working across installation, written work and drawing based in Dublin. Currently an artist in residence on the Leitrim Sculpture Centres ‘Land, Ecology and Environment’ program her ongoing commitment is to  Solo shows include ONONO, Rotterdam (2019), performance lecture, CIMMAR Porto (2018), Fringe, Dublin (2014); group shows include Model, Sligo (2021) Platform, Belfast (2019), Sirius, Cork (2019), Tulca, Galway (2018), Guest Appearance, The Museum Building TCD, April (2018), Tombolo (2017) and Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto Gijon, Spain (2014). Recent written work includes being published in the Winter Pages (2018) and a commissioned essay for the ‘The Sea Around Us’, The Model Sligo (2020). She has been awarded a number of national and international residencies including, UCD Parity Studios 2020/2021, Basic Space residency (2019), Callen Workhouse Union residency (2018), Lay of the Land (2017) and Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto Gijon, Spain (2014). Collaborative projects include ROSC: Fiction of the Contemporary, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)(2017) and PIIGS: An Alternative Geography to Curating, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Italy (2016). She released the collaborative audio project EP Headfoot, in 2019 with performances nationally and international and she continues to contribute to sound and audio festivals, including All Together Now (2019). She holds a BA in Philosophy and sociology from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Art & Research collaboration at IADT.