Wioletta Ratajczak is an interdisciplinary artist and a member of Bbeyond.Based in Dublin, her artistic practice focuses on creating small scale performative devices and sculptures called ‘moment catchers’. They are inspired by paradoxical phenomena observed in everyday life.She also has designed sculptural costumes influenced by her childhood experiences,traumas and her family’s secrets. Those costumes are
Artists Sue Smith, Kuldip Singh-Barmi (Cornwall UK) and Rita Marcalo (Cloughjordan, ROI) have been in residence with their project loosely titled – Dancing on the Edge. Instigated by ideas of precarity, precipice, futures and survival in communities (hyper-local and global), we are exploring new movements in environment-conscious dance practices. At this early stage the research
Climbing the stairs I had the impression of entering a large mouth that has lost its milk teeth.
Live Art Ireland is providing me the chance to become intimate with the complexity of working through experimental performative sculpture processes — building pit kilns into the earth, conjuring glaze recipes out of raw materials, foraging found clay, and fabricating ceramic pieces as a response to previous ceramics making with Shurooq School for the Blind.
Zoe graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a degree in Fine Art in 2019. Their work is interdisciplinary in nature, integrating photography, textiles and drawing to apply accessible methods of healing and learning through collaborative storytelling. Their work is concerned with accessibility in art and wider society. These interests were showcased in their debut