This past month, Ormond Art Studios was delighted to host our 2023 Graduate Residency Award Talks.
Thank you to Aoife Ní Dhúinn, Falon Weaver and Shane Malone-Murphy for discussing their practices and giving their time so generously. We wish them all the very best for the future!
Aoife Ní Dhuinn (Aoife Dunne) is a Dublin based visual artist, who recently graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a First-Class BA degree in Fine Art Media. Ní Dhuinn completed her graduate show project in June, and was awarded the Fire Station Studios Sculpture Graduate Award 2023. Ní Dhuinns work is currently being exhibited in OUTSET Gallery in Galway, as part of the ‘Recent Graduate’ exhibition, running from August 18th-Sep 3rd.
Falon Weaver (b.1999) is an American visual artist based in Dublin. Weaver’s work, inspired by absurdist narratives, draws from a personal archive of natural imagery from her home place in Pennsylvania and time spent living in Norway and Ireland. Her work seeks to create silly moments by pairing concentrated painting with found object manipulation. Weaver’s painting practice is grounded in image-making processes, but extends beyond into object making and installation.
Shane Malone-Murphy is a Wicklow-based artist, who recently graduated with a first-class honours degree in Sculpture and Combined Media From The Limerick School of Art and Design. His work concerns itself with the entanglement of the human experience with landscape on both the personal and cultural realms. His work specifically takes note of the impact of grief upon one’s experience of the world. His practice is committed to harnessing the power of grief as a catalyst for ecological change. By understanding grief in a broader context, he aims to expose its potential to drive meaningful shifts in our relationship with the environment.
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