Rob Ireson

Rob Ireson is a socially engaged multidisciplinary artist with roots in sculpture, currently working in the realms of installation art, storytelling, sound art, performance and work which is ceremonial in nature.

His work is concerned with connection in social and ecological spaces.

Field recording and deep listening is an important tool in opening the door to these spaces.

Space where people can temporarily exist outside of themselves, creating moments of possibility in an increasingly prescriptive contemporary world.

This ecological approach lends itself to look beyond the human centred approach to artistic practice and he views this work as a collaboration with the more than human world informed by both eco-psychology and the commons.

Rob Ireson

Recent works include “Metaphysical Plumbing” (2023); an inflatable installation in The Dock Arts Centre as part of “Moon Mountain” edition of Hunters Moon Festival. The installation explored the unseen connections in our ecosystem through the use of inflatable sculpture paired with a soundscape of layered and looped field recordings. Wild Birds Fly is a participatory storytelling show, shown at the Hazelwood at the Electric Picnic Festival and Hidden Hearth Festival in Carlow. This show is still in development stage intending to tour in 2024. 2022 Rob installed “Folús” at the Other Voices Festival in Dingle; an inflatable void, a space for passers-by to step into and connect with each other. In 2021 he exhibited “Dead Wait” at RHA; a cast iron sculpture about the plight of asylum seekers. Self Assembly was co-created in 2020; a reconfigurable piece of public furniture hosting workshops and discussions. Created in collaboration with The Living Commons, Cork City. Public sculpture includes: “Resonance Grows” (2017); a bronze and steel heart shaped resonant chamber created for Ulster Hospital.