Beyond Drawing I, II
Beyond Drawing I
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre 23 July to 8 September 2022
Curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren
Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard, Mary-Ruth Walsh Opening with guest speaker Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Publication designed by Oonagh Young, featuring an essay by writer and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Kiera O'Toole, Weaved Drawing, reworked drawings, 500cm x 500cm x 20cm approx, 2022, Uilllnn, West Cork Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren,Photography by Ned Jedniezgoda
Kiera O'Toole, Weaved Drawing, reworked drawings, detail, 2022, Uilllnn, West Cork Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren,Photography by Ned Jedniezgoda
Kiera O'Toole, Weaved Drawing, reworked drawings, detail, 2022, Uilllnn, West Cork Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren,Photography by Ned Jedniezgoda
Kiera O'Toole, Weaved Drawing, reworked drawings, detail, 2022, Royal Hibernian Academy. Photography by Ron Kavanagh "At this very moment, you can see a huge necessity for artists to find out what the borders of drawing can be. Arno Kramer. Artist and Curator , Beyond Drawing I & IIBEYOND DRAWING II,
BALLINA ARTS CENTRE, 2020.
Curated by Arno Kramer
Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard, Mary-Ruth Walsh
Left: Kiera OToole, 23 Weaved Drawings, 2020, ink and graphite on paper, dimensions variable, Ballina Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer: Right:Mary-Ruth WalshKiera OToole, 23 Weaved Drawings, detail, 2020, ink and graphite on paper, dimensions variable, Ballina Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer
Kiera OToole, 23 Weaved Drawings, 2020, ink and graphite on paper, dimensions variable, Ballina Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer"Kiera O’Toole is transfixed by how humans experience the world, particularly the involuntary fragment that comes before naming or self-identification. Combining fieldwork, material and philosophical research, she makes ephemeral public site-specific drawings, collages, drawing installations and experimental stop-motion animations.
O’Toole considers herself a ‘patheur’; someone who follows their intuitive impulses, and she makes drawings that must be felt rather than cerebrally understood. She explores drawing’s capacity to map, record, materialise and afford the intimate and hidden intertwining relationships between humans and non-humans as experienced atmospherically. In this context, atmospheres refer to ‘emotional vibrations’ rather than being related to meteorology or atmospheric sciences. Drawing on the concepts from new phenomenology and aesthetics, atmospheres are fundamental experiences of our emotional engagement with the world.
In her work ‘Weaved Drawing from reworked drawings’, O’Toole aims to create a ‘holding space’ that enables viewers to encounter their affective involvement through an intuitive and felt embodied experience."
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