Mary Meskell

ABOUT WORK

My work explores feelings of emotional isolation and detachment. It incorporates traces of the human spirit when a sense of belonging is gone. I am very much influenced by the mood and colours used by Gregory Crewdson, photographer, in his ‘twilight’ series and the chiaroscuro technique used by Caravaggio. I take slow timed exposures to capture the exact mood and colours I want, almost 'forcing' the camera, to 'paint' the picture, There is an absence of the human figure in my work to evoke a sense of loss and the perceived invisibility of those who feel isolated or ‘out of place’.

CAREER

Since graduating from Art College I am working as a professional artist. I teach art part-time. My work has been in several selected shows, invited shows, exhibitions, various art auctions and hangs in private collections in Ireland, England, America and Australia. I am currently exhibiting and working on a new body of work for a forthcoming solo show. I am a member of Limerick Printmakers.

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AWARDS

2007 - Silver Winner ‘My Back Yard 3’ (single entry) London Photographic Association; 2008 - Bronze Winner 'My Back Yard 4' (5 series entry) London Photographic Association;

EDUCATION

As a young child my father gave me broken cameras to play with. Without realizing it I had begun to analyse the world around me through the lens of a camera. As I clicked the shutters of those empty cameras a natural inclination developed for cropping what I see. At college I studied Printmaking and in the course of these studies I began taking photographs for ideas for silkscreen prints. These photographs became prints in themselves which dictated my continual use of the photographic medium in printmaking.

COLLEGE

2007 Graduated, Limerick School of Art & Design, Limerick City, Ireland, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art Printmaking.

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Winter Members Exhibition (selected), Limerick Printmakers; Group Show, Vault Gallery, Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland; Open Submission Print Show 2008, Limerick Printmakers; Invited Solo Show ‘In-Between Places’, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick; Adam’s Contemporary & Modern Art Auction (Spring), Dublin; 2007 LPA Winners Exhibition, Calumet Photographic Gallery, (Touring Exhibition) Manchester, England; LPA Winners Exhibition, Calumet Photographic Gallery, Euston, London; Silver Winner London Photographic Association ‘My Backyard 3’ Competition; Roches Street Traders Art Exhibition, ‘ Bijou’, Roches St., Limerick; Art Auction, Rainbow Support Services, Murroe, Co. Limerick; Art Auction Preview Exhibition, Rainbow Support Services, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick; Bursary Applicants Show, Limerick Printmakers; R.D.S. Student Awards, Dublin Horse Show; Open Submission Print Show 2007, Limerick Printmakers; ‘Spectrum’ 2007 L.S.A.D. Degree Show, Limerick; Drawing Awards Exhibition, Limerick School of Art & Design, (Curated & Selected by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times art critic). 2006 A dam’s Contemporary & Modern Art Auction (Winter), Dublin; Adam’s Contemporary & Modern Art Auction (Autumn), Dublin; Roches Street Traders Art Exhibition, Limerick; Royal Hibernian Academy 176th Annual Exhibition, Dublin; ‘Platform’ Photographic Exhibition, L.S.A.D., Limerick; ‘Blath Bui na Bealtaine’ (Group Exhibition), Limerick.

PUBLICATIONS

2008 ‘Limerick Now’ Magazine (Irish), featured artist, Oct. Issue 2008.