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BIO
Fiona Byrne is a project based maker and visual artist. She trained at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and has a joint degree in glass and visual culture. She has been awarded funding from Culture Moves Europe, Arts Council of Ireland, the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Awards and BLICKE Kultur Stadt Bern. She has exhibited internationally including showing her work in Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, France and the UK.
In addition to her artistic practice, she has worked extensively in the arts education sector. She has organised and led many exhibitions, events and workshops centred on the themes of engagement and process; examining the role of making in our society.
STATEMENT
Fiona Byrne is an artist and maker focused on the transformative potential of material engagement, bringing people into deeper relationship with materials. Through materials, we can access a felt knowledge, rooted in slowness and care, creating connections to the world which encourage gentler ways of living.
She works through objects to explore knowledge, delving into the concept as an ecosystem which encompasses human and more-than-human nature. This expands knowledge not just to plants and creatures, but also to things.
She has developed a project-based practice, based around themes of body, place, and material. Often this work explores craft making, feminism, ritual and blue spaces, things at the margins of society. She is interested in how making can open up new approaches to thinking and being in the world.
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