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Notions Exchange: A transatlantic dialogue with contemporary artists
April 27, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In this free webinar, engage with a group of artists in Ireland and North America/Turtle Island about an exciting exchange they’ve been developing over the last few years. Themes will include relationship to place, (de)colonization, roots/rootlessness, diaspora/motherland, and more. The webinar takes place at 1 pm Central/ 7 pm Irish time.
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Panelists include:
Abby Sunde is a visual artist currently residing in Madison, WI. She graduated from University of MN – Morris with a BA in Biology & Environmental Sciences and pursued a career in the sciences before recently returning to school at the University of WI – Madison to study studio glass and 2D work. Her current practice resides in the intersections of personal agency within society, experiences, and her own identity.
Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl is a multi-disciplinary artist using a range of new media to create installations and performance art, using light, audio, still images and video and who engages in live art performance to explore contemporary themes of gender, identity, truth and justice. Examining the power structures at play within language and the methods used to silence the voice of the ‘other’, Sinéad’s recent practice involves the creation of spatial audio environments using the agency of sound as a method of resistance. Working at the intersection of contemporary fine art and technology, Sinead is a current member and the Chair of Vault Artist Studios having received the 2021 University of Atypical DDAF Award, 2021 Kfest Screaming Pope finalist and the 2020 Catalyst/Kilkenny Exchange Award. In addition, Sinéad received the University of Atypical Graduate Award in 2020 as well as funding from both Arts Council NI and Freelands Foundation in 2020. Sinéad is a co-founder of Second Collective Belfast.
Martina Hynan is an artist and curator based in Ennis, Co. Clare, and is also a member of The Elephant Collective, a birth activist group. She is currently a PhD researcher with the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway. Her research is an interdisciplinary creative practice-with-research project exploring the changing relationship with birthplace during the twentieth century in Ireland.
A native New Yorker who spent fifteen years living in Ireland, Noreen has a lifelong interest in Irish history. She is a web editor and policy entrepreneur, and loves the power of the internet to share Ireland with the world. She has worked at VirtualIreland.com in NY and Irish Emigrant Publications in Galway, and was the Director of the Emigrant Advice Network in Dublin; she is currently employed as the Content Manager at CIE Tours, Ireland’s leading tour operator. She is active in several Irish diaspora organizations and is currently the Communications Officer for the Irish Business Organization in NY. For many years she ran GlobalIrish.ie and is a co-founder of VotingRights.ie, which advocates for voting rights for non-resident Irish citizens. Noreen holds a BA from Notre Dame, an MA in Irish literature and culture from Boston College, and an MPA from Harvard University.
