Biography - Nuala Clarke and Crystal Gandrud
Nuala Clarke and Crystal Gandrud have been in collaboration since 2010. Their merged practices of visual and textual art unfold on a continuum, as part of an interconnected series evolving over time. Both performed “Fair Shouldered One” (a book which is not a book) at the &Now Literary Festival in Paris, 2012 and installed “Between Spaces”, a Yeats inspired dreamscape at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, 2013.
Clarke has been represented by Boltax Gallery in New York since 2005. Recent shows include, (2012) Amid a Space Between: Irish Artists in America at the SFMoMa Artists Gallery, San Francisco; (2013) To Tremble into Stillness, at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; RHA invited artist, A drawing for Everything, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.
Crystal Gandrud is currently creating a digital publishing structure entitled "Dream of the Drawing for Everything" in partnership with The Design Office, Providence, RI. Recent publications include “Yeastian: Numberless Dreamers”, The Encyclopedia Project, 2014, “Here”, Lost Magazine, and “Idiom: Woodbird Flies Early”, The Encyclopedia Project. She is working on a memoire, "Astonishment: A Litany of the Uncanny", for Shambhala Publications. She writes in New York City and Normandy, France.
http://www.nualaclarke.com/Nuala_Clarke/NUALA_CLARKE.html
http://www.actuallyorange.com/ (Crystal Gandrud)
Nuala Clarke and Crystal Gandrud have been in collaboration since 2010. Their merged practices of visual and textual art unfold on a continuum, as part of an interconnected series evolving over time. Both performed “Fair Shouldered One” (a book which is not a book) at the &Now Literary Festival in Paris, 2012 and installed “Between Spaces”, a Yeats inspired dreamscape at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, 2013.
Clarke has been represented by Boltax Gallery in New York since 2005. Recent shows include, (2012) Amid a Space Between: Irish Artists in America at the SFMoMa Artists Gallery, San Francisco; (2013) To Tremble into Stillness, at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; RHA invited artist, A drawing for Everything, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.
Crystal Gandrud is currently creating a digital publishing structure entitled "Dream of the Drawing for Everything" in partnership with The Design Office, Providence, RI. Recent publications include “Yeastian: Numberless Dreamers”, The Encyclopedia Project, 2014, “Here”, Lost Magazine, and “Idiom: Woodbird Flies Early”, The Encyclopedia Project. She is working on a memoire, "Astonishment: A Litany of the Uncanny", for Shambhala Publications. She writes in New York City and Normandy, France.
http://www.nualaclarke.com/Nuala_Clarke/NUALA_CLARKE.html
http://www.actuallyorange.com/ (Crystal Gandrud)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Woven Found, an installation of linen flags flying over Castlebar's Castle Street, celebrates the boom times of the linen industry. Unfolding local history through the interwoven play of image and word, the flags offer non-linear insight into the processes and vivid idioms of the linen world. Each flag reveals a story of the production of linen and its larger significances to the human experience. The installation explores the many ways in which a mundane industry reflects a specialness of place with a profound mystery all its own.
Limited edition booklets related to this project will be available at the Linenhall gallery.
With special thanks to Thomas Collins of Collins Estate Agents and Catherine Brennan of Castle Book Shop, Castle St.
WRITING: FABRIC
Things:
muds and mounds and roots and tree and leaves and rot and microscopic wiggles.
To be raked and waded through. Combed and shaped. Picked through and avoided.
There are things and things in the world: fibers and worms and silks and rough silver.
Lost. Touched. Caressed even.
There are things and then there are things in the world:
children and money and fineries of sorts.
Made and hoarded and traded and paid for.
A thing that will dissipate. A thing that will dissolve. Things die. Are broken.
Things end.
A lasting thing is an unmade thing.
A lasting thing does not die with the host. It is passed on until its usefulness fades and it blurs out into no more. But then, that is not lasting.
There is a thing in the world not fabricated. But then, thing is not the word.
Limited edition booklets related to this project will be available at the Linenhall gallery.
With special thanks to Thomas Collins of Collins Estate Agents and Catherine Brennan of Castle Book Shop, Castle St.
WRITING: FABRIC
Things:
muds and mounds and roots and tree and leaves and rot and microscopic wiggles.
To be raked and waded through. Combed and shaped. Picked through and avoided.
There are things and things in the world: fibers and worms and silks and rough silver.
Lost. Touched. Caressed even.
There are things and then there are things in the world:
children and money and fineries of sorts.
Made and hoarded and traded and paid for.
A thing that will dissipate. A thing that will dissolve. Things die. Are broken.
Things end.
A lasting thing is an unmade thing.
A lasting thing does not die with the host. It is passed on until its usefulness fades and it blurs out into no more. But then, that is not lasting.
There is a thing in the world not fabricated. But then, thing is not the word.
