tara McGinn’s interdisciplinary practice combines analogue and digital processes to produce sculpture, installation, writing, 2-D media, audio, and moving image. Conceptually, the work explores visual and literal language as a lens through which cultural narratives are deconstructed and re-examined.
ARTIST BIO
Tara McGinn is a visual artist and writer from Wexford, currently based in Belfast. She is a graduate with distinction from the MFA in Fine Art at Ulster University, a former Catalyst Arts Co-director and is currently a cohort member of the Freelands Artist Programme with PS2 gallery and studios in Belfast. Recent residencies include HOME with Digital Artist Studios (2022) in Belfast and On the Edge and Out of Control with CAMP FR (2022). Recent solo shows include The Melted/ing of Spring at the CCA Derry (2022) and Nothing Alien is Human to Us at Platform Arts (2021) with an upcoming solo project at PS2 gallery and studios in January 2023. She is the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2021) for her visual practice and a Visual Arts Bursary Award (2021) for her writing.
Spilled Milk #1, 2022. Tara McGinn, 11x16x13cm, Terracotta clay, acrylic paint, polymer relief outliner (various), gilding wax, high gloss varnish.
The Melting/ed of Spring, 2022, Tara McGinn, Dimensions variable, CCA project space, Derry/Londonderry.
Domestic Fossil (or matriarchal lineage), 2021, Tara McGinn, Cast resin, gloss varnish. Photo credit: Ben Malcolmson.
Acephallics, 2019, Tara McGinn, Plaster cast, inkjet pints on acetate, dimensions varible, MFA Degree Exhibition, University of Ulster.
She is developing a body of work that takes her family home as a site of information; revealing motifs of trauma, memory and care using storytelling and multimedia through the objects, surfaces and textures of its interiors.
Spilled Milk #5, 2022. Tara McGinn, 17x22x17cm, Terracotta clay, acrylic paint, polymer relief outliner (various), acrylic ink, water based gloss varnish.
Installation image, The Melting/ed of Spring, 2022, Tara McGinn, Dimensions variable, CCA project space, Derry/Londonderry.
