Waystation is the forthcoming graduate exhibition of the MA Fine Art at TU Dublin, 2024 at The Complex Gallery. The five artists have worked collaboratively as a group and in conjunction with Complex curator Mark O'Gorman, to create Waystation as a site of cross contamination and colliding worlds beyond the usual conventions of a degree show.
With the exhibition opening with a preview this Friday from 6-8 pm, we'd like you to meet two more artists involved in Waystation - Eden Munroe and Ger O'Brien.
Eden Munroe is a visual artist based in Dublin. She makes work that is concerned with excavating unthought-of pasts and crafting speculative futures, through a queer archaeological lens. Her work employs the stone artefacts of prehistoric Ireland as queer tools for sense-making, utilising speculative fictioning to collapse binaries across space and time. She desires to open up wormholes with her work, and has probably been poisoned with dark matter in the process.
Munroe graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from TU Dublin in 2022. Her work has been exhibited as part of the RDS Visual Art Awards (2022), and the group exhibition Gaffer Tape (2023). She was a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award (2022).
Ger O’Brien has a background in landscape architecture and natural science, and these fields of study and practice inform his art. He traverses different disciplines but with an underlying concern for self, the ‘other’, and environment(s). Drawing is central to his practice as is the body. His practice has greatly evolved and developed during his fine art masters giving him a sense of consilience.
Ger graduated with a BA (Hons) in Natural Science in 1997 from Trinity College, Dublin and a masters degree in landscape architecture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002. He has taken part in several city-wide art festivals in Dundee, Scotland (2011, 2012 and 2015) and was awarded a Dundee Visual Artist and Craft Makers award (2013). He lectured in landscape architecture (2015-2019) and had research in two international conferences (2017). He has worked with Architecture and Design Scotland (2019-2022) and has published texts and drawings most recently in the journal of The Academy of Urbanism (2022).
Waystation runs at The Complex Gallery 26 October - 2 November.
The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Whiplash Beer, who will provide refreshments on opening night and The Complex Bar will be open from 8pm for everyone to enjoy drinks and chat about the show.