Yvonne Cullivan's profile
Name: Yvonne Cullivan
Organisation: Kids` Own Publishing Partnership Visual Artists Ireland Community Arts Forum Engage Studios Create
Website: http://www.yvonnecullivan.com
Member since:2008-05-01
Last online:2009-12-08
Background
Studied fine art at GMIT and Crawford, specialising in printmaking. Completed an M.Sc. in Multimedia at DCU. Began working within a community context in 2000. Initial work in this area in the form of facilitation on short projects. Worked as a tutor within the VEC and in NCAD. Developed practice through longer term residencies with Kids` Own, Leitrim Sculpture Center, The Ark. Has exhibited continuously in solo and group shows including The Dock, Claremorris Open, Leitrim Sculpture Center. Contracted as Programme Coordinator and, currently as Practice.ie Research Coordinator with Kids` Own Publishing Partnership
Professional Organisation
Kids` Own Publishing Partnership
Visual Artists Ireland
Community Arts Forum
Engage Studios
Create
Professional Statement
My work evolves from a contemplation of transformation. Change may be occurring in an immediate sense: physical, emotional, cerebral or in the external environment: social, geographical, cultural. It is inextricably also a response to environment.
There is also a reflection on time: observation of transformation over time and subsequent acclimatization. My work bears witness to this cyclical process of change and adjustment to change: it observes, documents, quietly comments. There is a meditative quality present which is borne of a slow and thorough observation and which requests a similar quality of deliberation from its audience. In this manner, I also attempt to create space and time for the act of contemplation itself.
Within the above, the work attempts a sense of personal or social narrative. From time to time in its formation, I will reach beyond the relocating studio to engage directly with the community and locality.
