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Máire Kennan
About
Máire Kennan is a painter, writer, and multi media artist and curator based in Cardiff, Wales.
She is currently the Gallery Manager of Bayart Contemporary Gallery in Cardiff.
She is also one half of the curatorial partnership Páir Curators. With Páir, she has curated international exhibitions in England and Wales. She has also written and taught creative summer camps and classes to children and teens.
Her work as an artist has been featured in group exhibitions around Cardiff, at galleries such as Oriel Canfas, Bayart, and G39.
She is 21.
Artist Statement
My practice explores the nonlinear nature of time, unearthing past and present, working to materialise intersections of memory. My work defies time, weaving together familial and auto historical elements, collective memory and degradation, drawing from archival photographs and the subjectivity of imagined and recollected places. In each place, each family, each moment, there are things that are left behind, patterns that are repeated, cycled again, trapped. These are the things I hope to render, to materialise a fragment of what remains. I encase my paintings in objects that isolate the viewer, allowing them to experience the cyclical nature of time, and place. My work is as imperfect as our own recollection of time: detailed, yet vague, familiar yet strange, unexplained, slight, yet enveloping.
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