The Flipside - Group Show
The Flipside - Group Show
Exhibition Dates: July 19th - July 27th, 2018
Opening Night: July 19th, 6:30pm
The FlipSide is a group exhibition by three female artists; Wendy Judge, Niamh McGuinne and Mella Travers, all of whom use photography as part of their practice but come from three very distinctive creative backgrounds. The Flipside explores the non-traditional use of photography through chemical and digital interventions.
Wendy Judge; Refabricationland II. Sculptural and photographic compositions.
Niamh McGuinne; Accelerated Ageing. Drawings on recycled x-ray negatives and selectively exposed to pollutant gasses in a temperature controlled humidity chamber.
Mella Travers; Duality; Experimental film development using chemicals stripping agents and re-developing techniques.
Artists Bios:
Wendy Judge
Wendy Judge is a visual artist based in Dublin. In 2020 she was awarded a travel residency with the darkroom.ie followed by an exhibition in 2021.
Exhibitions include The Lump Show at Cornelius Projects, Los Angeles USA 2019, Factory Installed at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA 2016. In 2013 she was invited to make new work alongside William Evans of Eton (1798-1877) in From Galway to Leenane: Perspectives On Landscape, National Gallery of Ireland.
She has been part of Difference Engine a model of autonomous and evolving artist curation since 2009, most recently showing at HDLU in Zagreb and Resort Revelations Fingal Arts Program, Dublin, in 2018. Solo projects include Souvenir Views at Pallas Projects, 2012, Great Works at Goethe-Institut Dublin, 2008 followed by Works of the World United, Thisisnotashop, Dublin in 2009. Group exhibitions, include The Balloon at Rawson Projects, New York, 2014, Dublin Contemporary, 2011 and ‘Last’ at Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2012, She was one of a group of artists that represented Thisisnotashop, at the Festival of Independents – No Soul for Sale, New York, 2009, and at Tate Modern, London, 2010.
Wendy Judge: Collected Views of Great Works from the 20th century was published in 2008 as part of work centred around no go places. She has been supported by Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland and received A Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Award in 2019.
www.wendyjudgeart.squarespace.com | IG: @judge.wendy
Mella Maude Travers
Mella Maude Travers is a conceptual artist working in the medium of analogue photography and motion film. My approach is experimental and multi-faceted using emulsion manipulation and chemical processing to address issues surrounding the embodiment of trauma and the relationship between first-hand experience and out-of-body observation. Beginning with the conventional portrait format I incorporate a combination of negative and positive processing techniques to suggest this ethereal/liminal space where the subject exists with one foot in and one out of the present moment. I am interested in how the person and their body is shaped by their experiences. I shoot in studio & on location to produce narrative and non-narrative sequences which hint at how the body responds to being observed and at the specific point where the body becomes still, present and empowered. Mella works in Analogue photography using large format cameras and motion film.
www.mellatravers.com | IG: @mellatravers FB: @MellaTraversPhotography
Niamh McGuinne
Extimacy as an outer expression of the most inner state is a theme that underlies my current work. Marvelling at how the body absorbs and holds psychological and physical experiences as a memory in the form of biological armouring, I draw a parallel to the protective nature of the shell, sometimes using the silhouette to emphasise this interior space. My practice can be broadly described as expanded print, incorporating sculptural elements, film and installation. I also make structures, inhabitable or often wearable, whose function is not initially clear. They have echoes of minimalism in their materiality and industrial form but are post minimalist in their handmade assembly. They contain a myriad of possibilities with their indistinct appearance; a refuge from the unknown and invisible overload of the everyday world, where we are bombarded with signs, signals and information.
www.niamhmcguinne.com | IG: @niamhmcguinne FB: @nmcguinne
