Ellen-Rose Wallace

Statement

I am an artist working with lens-based media, 3D animation, sculpture, and sound art. Developing from an interest in oral tradition, my practice is concerned with how we conceptualise time, history and narrative. In particular, the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson are central to my work.

My long-form video and audio work is interested in how the experience of time can be articulated through unfinished, unending or cyclical narrative structures. It focuses on cycles in nature, often framed through objects that symbolise transition. These objects are displaced or misused, reflecting on a feeling of stasis during the pandemic. More recently I have begun to develop a body of site specific work using the medium of traditional limestone dry stone walling.

GlogauAIR Project

I’m currently developing a body of work using traditional dry stone walling to investigate human interpretations of time in the context of the climate crisis. This work will be interested in the division of time into periods of history, mythology and geology, and how certain narratives have influenced our interpretation of the past and future.

This body of work incorporates sculpture, lens based media, 3D animation and sound. It explores the significance of the mythological “deluge” in a contemporary context where further great floods are imminent. In the mythology of various cultures, the creation of life begins in a vast ocean. The work approaches this pattern of the “flood myth” as a cycle from end to beginning. The narrative presented in the work takes place in a period ‘before’ a disaster.

Installation, New media, and Sound Art

CV Summary

A member of the Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2023, Visual Artists Ireland and Limerick Printmakers.

EDUCATION

• 2017 – 2021 TUS Limerick School of Art and Design, BA Sculpture and Combined Media (1:1)

SHOWS

• 2022
  • ‘After Our Own’ at Sailors Home, Limerick, curated by the OOBLECK Collective
  • ‘Generation’ at Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival, curated by Finn Nichol
  • ‘K-FEST’ Arts Festival, Killorglin
  • ‘you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht Gallery, curated by Amanda Coogan
• 2021
  • K-FEST Arts Festival, Killorglin
  • ‘Ascend | Recede’, Solo Exhibition at Ormond Art Studios
  • ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival, curated by Therry Rudin 2021
  • ‘RALLY’, Limerick School of Art and Design’s online Graduate Show
• 2020
  • ‘Luan Gallery Art Fair’, a showcase of artists from the Midlands at the Luan Gallery, Athlone
  • ‘Field Test’, a showcase of video work presented beside the Silvermine Mountains, curated by Aideen Barry 2020
  • ‘Mixtape’, an exhibition of video works at South Tipperary Arts Centre, curated by Helena Tobin

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

• 2023
  • GlogauAIR Online Artist in Residence
• 2022
  • Arts Council Agility Award, Dry Stone Walling Bursary
  • Draíocht Open Call Graduate Exhibition Prize €2000
  • Roscommon County Council Artist Bursary
• 2021
  • Arts Council Agility Award, 3D Animation Bursary
  • Shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards
  • Runner-up prize for the Screaming Pope Prize at K-FEST
  • Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency Award

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