Celine Sheridan
Latch, Labour, Love’ 2019,
Detail of triptych, Acrylic on board, 61x122cm each.
I am an Irish multi-disciplinary visual artist. Figurative drawing and painting are my main disciplines. I love drawing for its primacy, and drawing/painting the figure for how it represents the psychosomatic of the body and mind. The drawings, whether painted, with pencil or other media, comes from my daily observations of family, my children, my everyday and myself. I am hyper-cognisant of body shapes, line, form, negative space, colours, movements and stances in a poetic, psychological and political way.
Drawing informs other aspects of my practice which includes bookmaking, printmaking and my new interest in fabric, foam and other materials. My research is both colloquial and academic in nature, and includes discussions with third level professers and accessing academic writings.
Recurring imagery in my work includes the female body and nonsensical and mutated body parts, motherhood and parenting, zoomorphism, body fluids including breastfeeding, familial relationships and masculinity (in the context of Irish history and society). I am fascinated by the similarities and comparisons between the human body and human behaviours (physical and psychological) and animals and animal behaviours including primates. (My interest in this has recently included the Great Irish Elk for reasons of Evolution, Sexual Selection and Masculinity). I am currently collaborating with visual artist Mel French on a project titled ‘Anthropomorphic, Mammalia and the Hominidae’. We are working towards an exhibition in the Zoology Museum, Trinity College Dublin in 2021 and a two person exhibition in Limerick City Gallery of Art in 2022.
