Susan Connolly makes paintings and large-scale installations. Her work explores the notion of uncertainty in painting and its ability to remain relevant in our digital age. The work references the history of abstract art and reflects on and challenges the medium itself.
ARTIST BIO
Susan Connolly is an artist based in Belfast. She holds a practice based PhD(2018) and an MFA(2002) from Belfast School of Art and a first class hons Masters from NCAD(2013). Connolly has exhibited extensively on the island of Ireland with recent commissioned work exhibited at the FE McWilliam Gallery(2020), the Golden Thread Gallery (2018), CCA (2018) and the MAC, Belfast(2014). Her work is held in many private and public collections, with the Arts Council of Ireland recently acquiring a major large scale work. Other noteworthy career achievements include receiving funding from the Arts Council of Ireland(2021), Culture Ireland funding to exhibit at Kunsthaus Dalhlem, Berlin(2020), and her selection to particate in the Golden Foundations artist residency programme, New York (2017).
Traces of an Activity 21.10, 2021, Susan Connolly, 17.5x12.5x1.5cm, Acrylic on canvas
Top Left: An installation of shot of Something To Do With Paint, Susan Connolly, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2014.
An installation of shot of Over+over&over, FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Acrylic paint, medium gel, steel, sterling board; various dimensions; 2019/2020
Everything & Nothing, Studio, Acrylic paint, medium gel, 2014
Susan Connolly Studio, QSS, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2021
The idea of painting thus becomes the subject, content, and media all at the same time resulting in artworks that visually bring together traces of the work's process and methods of production.
Traces of an Activity 21.9, 2021, Susan Connolly, 17.5x12.5x1.5cm, Acrylic on canvas
TITLE
On silent air (no.10)
ARTIST
Charys Wilson
ABOUT THE WORK
On silent air is a new edition of works the size of a handheld tablet by Charys Wilson. The plants and flowers featured in this edition of 10 individual works have been sourced from the immediate vicinity of The Living House, North Belfast; a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange They create domestic landscapes intended for the home, which, through recycled polarised TV screens, provide partly obscured glimpses of organic growth. On silent air speaks of a mediated, digitalised, and disembodied experience of accessing a rapidly fading, tactile natural world through a technological interface.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
24 cm (h) x 17 cm (w) x 3 cm (d)
MEDIUM
Wood, pins, dried plant, section of recycled tv screen, artist glass
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
1/10 original works
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charys Wilson’s practice centres on installation and small-scale sculptural works. Drawing on a background in printmaking, her attention is often directed towards alignment, layering and the subtle relationships between materials, light and space. Elements of the outside are brought indoors, creating quiet encounters through illusion, mimicry, light and shadow.
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