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BIO Janet Mullarney
Janet Mullarney
Born in Dublin (Ireland). She lives and works between Ireland and Italy.
“I like to think of my sculptural work as irrational fantasies, surreal and sometimes playful ones, but always closely tied to the history of art and antiquity; Egypt, through the Middle Ages, to Modernism. Without a great criterion, but with great passion, this reservoir of secret observations on the human nature in its universality allows me to help myself to it without qualms. I try to express a primordial presence, a sense of the collective memory, linked to an amused and amazed research on the ambiguities of our behavior. Psychoanalysis fascinates and moves me. The animal kingdom is a metaphor for family and personal relationships. The materials I use for my sculpture, aside from wood (to which I am particularly attached), consists of almost everything: anything that I can manipulate with my hands, can use to dirty myself and think hard about how to shape, to struggle to obtain that expression, that gesture, that turning one’s back which is particularly universal. Foam rubber, papier maché, bronze, textiles, plaster, glass, wax, terracotta, light, everything has its own magic, its tactile expressivity for the eye: furniture, wall, ceiling as a support, even here, everything can turn a figure into an integral part of space, an overturned being with which to cohabit, an intimate presence in which to mirror oneself, or a vague, distant memory of a state of being.”
- Janet Mullarney
Recent solo exibitions (selection):
- 2006 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
- 2006 Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- 2002 The Bermuda Triangle, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- 2001 Almas y Escaleras, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
Recent group exibitions (selection):
- 2006 The Art of Looking, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- 2006 Comharsana Beal Dorais, Contemporary Irish Art from the IMMA Collection, at The Rooms, The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- 2005 EV+A Limerick curated by Dan Cameron, Limerick, Ireland
- 2004 Views from an Island Irish Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, and the Shanghai Art Museum, Shangai, China