Artists

Padraig Cunningham & Linda Shevlin

Exhibition Title

"Circadian" & "Nocturne"

Exhibition Statement

Circadian is a collaborative multi media exhibition by the artists Padraig Cunningham & Linda Shevlin.

The three channel video work also titled "Circadian" touches on themes that have been a growing concern in Cunningham and Shevlin’s individual practices, particularly the impact of industrialisation on the natural environment. This observational work references the cyclical nature of their immediate surroundings, which are intentionally generic, and visually explores the consistent attempt to diminish darkness.

In addition to the video installation, Cunningham and Shevlin will also present another new work titled "Nocturne". Nocturne attempts to track and intervene in the progressive cycle of domestic vegetation’s development. Presented as a phantasmagorical sequence the works portrays the ebb and flow of growth and decay.

Exhibition Images

Biography

Cunningham has been exhibiting continuously since graduating with honours from DIT in 1996 including at the Ashford Gallery in the RHA, Galway Arts Centre, The Model in Sligo, The Cross Gallery in Dublin and the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon. In 2009 Cunningham was awarded a place on the Trade residency, an international residency working with the artist Darren Almond, funded by Leitrim and Roscommon arts offices. This programme concluded with the Trade conference and an exhibition titled Sequence.

Shevlin’s practice is concerned with the relationships between the built & the natural environment, how we historise and monumentalise the spaces we inhabit and engage with. Her research titled Re-imagining the Hierarchy of Monuments was published in issue 19 of the Architectural Association of Irelands journal “Building Material”. She has exhibited extensively most recently as part of the curated show Notions of Capital at The Dock and was selected for Live@8 as part of the Tulca Festival 2009, Galway. Shevlin completed her Masters in Visual Arts Practices through IADT in 2009.