Water Witching is an exhibition of new work by artist Shelagh Honan. Her lens-based narrative features photography, sculpture, video, sound and installation, all of which pivot around an audio video called Aistear.
Water Witching is an exhibition of new work by artist Shelagh Honan. Her lens-based narrative features photography, sculpture, video, sound and installation, all of which pivot around an audio video called Aistear.
Water Witching is an exhibition of new work by artist Shelagh Honan. Her lens-based narrative features photography, sculpture, video, sound and installation, all of which pivot around an audio video called Aistear.
This film touches on themes of mortality, transcendence, infinity and the abyss. Its co-ordinates are those of modernist poetic cinema, with long takes which are sometimes fixed in slow motion. The central figure moves through a series of landscapes and appears in a co-temporal state, existing within her own frame of time and communing with nature through a dream-like sequence.
Biography
Shelagh Honan is an artist filmmaker, working in Ireland. Her practice includes film making, video, photography, installation, sculpture, sound and projection.Her practice is contemplative, encompassing the minimalist, observational art of slow cinema, sound and installation. She is a lecturer in Photography Film Video at Limerick School of Art and Design. She received her Master's Degree in Interactive Media from The University of Limerick 2010 and her primary degree in Fine Art Sculpture from Limerick School of Art and Design 1994.
Selected projects include: wom@arts media exhibition 2021 at Limerick(Ireland)lens-based wom@arts media exhibitions in 2019-2020 at Maribor(Slovenia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Rijeka(Croatia) and Angoulême (France); Féile na Bealtaine, Dingle, Kerry(2021);(2021); artist residency, Avilés, Spain (2018); Chicago Blow Up International Film Festival (2018); ‘Passage of Sound’ installation, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Ennis (2017); director and cinematographer, ‘Seomra 1916’ documentary, Galway Fringe Festival and Feile an Phobail in Belfast (2016); ‘The Diving Bell’, Galway Fringe Festival and Ennis Street Arts Festival(2016); installation at Albright Centre Philadelphia, USA (2014); solo exhibition,The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Clare (2014); ‘The Photography Ireland Festival’, Faber Studios, Limerick (2014).
She has been the recipient of Arts Council funding (2020) Travel and TrainingAwards from the Arts Council of Ireland, as well as Culture Ireland funding(2018- 2019)and local authority art grants and bursaries.
