JILL QUIGLEY IS FOCUSED ON THE COMPLEXITIES CREATED BY THE ACT OF PHOTOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURAL SPACE. HER WORKS EXPLORE ATMOSPHERE, FUNCTIONALITY, CULTURAL RELEVANCE AND ASPIRATION, AND HOW WE ATTACH MEANING TO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY INERT.
ARTIST BIO
Jill Quigley is an artist who works with photography and installation. She completed an MFA in Photography at Ulster University (2014), having previously studied Art History at Trinity College Dublin. She has had solo exhibitions at Belfast Exposed and at Seen Fifteen in London and her work has been shown in Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (2019), the Rochester Art Centre, Minnesota, and the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland (2017). Her work has won the Jill Todd Award and the ESPY Student Prize and has been nominated for the Magnum Graduate Photographers Award, the Prix Pictet and the Unseen Dummy Book Award. She has held membership at the Belfast Photo Factory and Platform Arts studio group.
Piggery, 2015, Jill Quigley, 29.7 x 21cm, Pigment print on red perspex.
Funhouse Publication, 2019, Jill Quigley, Unseen Dummy Award, Amsterdam, 2019
THE IMAGES SHE MAKES ARE BASED ON OBSERVATION AND THE EXPLORATION OF MUNDANE SURROUNDINGS, AND SEEK POSSIBILITIES FOR PLAYFUL ACTS THAT WILL SPARK NEW APPROACHES TO THINKING ABOUT THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS REPRESENTATION, AND HOW SPACES CAN BE READ AND EXPERIENCED.
An installation shot of the work Art Without Mystery, Jill Quigley, PXIX Platform Arts Members Show, Belfast, Northern Ireland, December 2019.
Silo & Yard, 2015, Jill Quigley, 29.7 x 21cm, Pigment print on perspex.
