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Residency Exhibition 2010

Emma Houlihan - Moving Ground’
Houlihan creates a discourse between art and community by engaging directly with people and places, be it offering leg-ups over walls to people in Copenhagen, collaborating with members of Dublin’s parkour community, or helping residents of Greensboro, North Carolina re- arrange their homes. Her work is concerned with the connections and bonds that come out of these exercises - actions which tease out the transformative dimensions of collaborative practice.

Houlihan has been living in Manorhamilton since June investigating the surplus of housing in Leitrim. At first interested in partnering with locals, banks and developers to knock an unlived-in house, she's altered her project after the lack of interest from the public forced Houlihan to rethink people's relationship with their houses.

This process-based exhibition will deal with the effects of so-called ghost estates on the Leitrim landscape and, with the help of local builders, will seek to transform some of the detritus of the housing boom into a more tangible, usable object. 

www.emmahoulihan.com

Tony Mullin- ‘PACK’
Mullin’s work playfully explores states of failure, incompletion, and destruction as a means to displace our accustomed approach to everyday objects and structures. Born in Northern Ireland and trained in Design at the Royal College of Art, he broke early on from the traditional pathway of creating functional objects, intrigued instead to develop artwork that shakes up the vocabulary and effects of architecture and design.

This new body of work entitled Pack attempts to uproot how our everyday constructs are communicated and received. With humour in mind, objects and images taken from daily life are deconstructed and gathered together to form a network of investigations and incongruous views operating on the threshold of painting, architecture and drawing.

www.tonymullin.co.uk

Images from the Exhibition