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- Sinead Gaughran
Sinead
Gaughran
Bearing the Marks: Experimental Paintings Exploring the Body and its Markings
Sinéad Gaughran’s studio practice explores and examines ideas around the body. Encompassing the physical and psychological experience with particular emphasis placed on birthmarks and bruising. She involves herself in experimental practices and processes including staining, bleaching, tearing, gluing, folding, and stretching prior to the utilisation of any paint. Her renderings turn the familiarity of the body into something unfamiliar.
Lens based media and digital formats form part of the early initial stages of her working methods which also include collage and experimental material alterations. Through the reworking of personal imagery and motifs such as bruising, cuts and birthmarks. The forms are then transformed and submerged into large scale paintings. The collage of photo and material forms are integral to her entire body of work and attempt to portray the many different senses and experiences our body contains and occupies. As Sinéad’s work progresses, new works are continually informed by previous works.