Animal OPERA is a body of new work created as a result of an Artist Residency Award at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, 2012. Woods has here returned to her roots in sculpture, employing a range of material processes, including the materiality of sound, to generate a series of installations and wall/floor based objects across the three spaces of the gallery. The work in the exhibition focuses on a field of interactions between humans and other animals. Continuities and connections across animal and material forms are explored, mapping an alternative topology of human/ animal relations. The artist engages critically with the role that 'looking at animals' plays in our attitude to the non-human world: as a result, lenses, blind spots and systems of notation are explored visually and aurally. Animal OPERA is presented as a gallery exhibition, an online essay by the artist, a website and an audio work for dissemination through web channels, co-authored with Andrew Collins.
Fiona Woods is a visual artist based in Ireland. Her practice includes making, writing, curating and teaching. She has spent a number of years considering the rural as a site for socio-spatial practices and productions, and has carried out a number of public art commissions, both in Ireland and abroad. Recent works and projects include Walking Silvermines (2011); The Translocal Condition (2011); collection of minds (2010 – 11) and Common? (2010). She devised and directed Ground Up, (2003 - 2008), a programme of temporary public art in rural contexts for Clare County Council. Woods has an MA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and her work has received support from the Arts Council of Ireland.
curated by Seán O'Reilly
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