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RHONA BYRNE AND MARK GARRY (IRELAND)

4 October – 30 November 2011

Rhona Byrne lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Site or context is usually the point of departure for her projects. Byrnes practice employs an interdisciplinary approach and often involves collaboration with diverse industries, groups and individuals such as roller coaster enthusiasts, pigeon fanciers, laughter leaders, pilots, ecologists and psychologists. Her work explores the unstable conditions of environment, experience, meaning and emotion navigating complex layers of physical, mental and social space. Her projects manifest in many forms including sculpture, video, photographs, drawings, context specific installations, collaborative event-based projects and books. 

During her residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Rhona traveled to Hobart to participate in the exhibition Our Day Will Come, part of the Iteration: Again series of public art projects commissioned by Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST). While in Melbourne she developed a number of sculptural works in the studio and a new video work, ‘The Mitcham Laughter Club,’ which has since been exhibited in Ireland and the United States. She hosted an Open Studio evening to coincide with the Gertrude Studios 2011 exhibition opening, during which she made wearable balloon sculptures for the visitors to her studio, a project that she has reprised for Gracelands 2012: Circling the Square in Limerick City, Ireland.

http://www.rhonabyrne.com/

Rhona Byrne visited Melbourne as part of Gertrude Contemporary and Firestation Studios (Dublin) Reciprocal Residency program, which is generously supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.

 

Mark Garry

Mark Garry is an artist, independent curator, and writer working in Dublin. Through a process driven practice Garry creates precise and responsive site-specific installations which engage with our spatial interactions and sensory perception.

During his residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Mark developed a new drawing methodology that involves taking existing orchestral works and reinterpreting them as a series of drawings/visual scores, deconstructing them so that they can be interpreted by one or a small number of musicians. The first work in this series was a six-song sequence by Gustav Mahler entitled ‘The Song of the Earth.’ This work was presented in the exhibition All Humans Do at White Box in New York in January 2012. Mark Garry, Simon Jermyn and Ted Riederer made a sonic response to the series of drawings live in the gallery space, this recording was cut onto vinyl and was available to listen to in the gallery space. Below is a link to the sonic response:     
http://soundcloud.com/markgarry/01-mark-garry-simon-jermyn-ted