Sound and light installation including: reel to reel player quarter inch audio tape, trellis wood, work-lights and mirror-ball. Loop of audio tape playing through the reel to reel player, looping around the platform 4 meters overhead. Duration, 80 second sound loop, playing continuously
A series of site-specific spatial drawings.
Constructed from old military aerials, the drawings will be loosely based on landscape observations and cross-based motifs.
The direction of my work originates from investigations into a sense of place and how it is intrinsic to, or even formed by, our relationships with the object world. Essentially; how objects mediate between man and nature, objects function between us and are a deep-rooted element of our culture, but once removed they begin to exert a different status; to take on their own persona. I endeavour to examine each of these observances on both a personal and communal level involving landscape as a common denominator. With a non media specific practice, what remains consistent is my interest in drawing in relation to a sense of place or space. It is not about concealing or modifying but attempting to make that which ordinarily exists more apparent. Making bold statements out of the ordinary or insignificant.
Born in Cork, Ireland, 1976.
Art Education
2001 – 2003 MFA programme, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
1995 - 1999. Limerick I.T., School of Art and Design. Degree in Fine
Art Painting, (B.A. F.A.)
1997 L’Academie Royal des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Residencies
2003 Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA.
Recent Exhibitions
MFA Glasgow, Tent Rotterdam, Holland, July 2003 (group)
MFA Glasgow, Tramway Glasgow, June 2003 (group)
Groundswell Foundation Benefit, White Columns, New York. April 2003.
(Group)
‘Rock Candy’, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland. April 2003.
Invited.
‘How to Undo Spells With String’. Intermedia, Glasgow. January
2003. (Group).
Newbery Gallery, Glasgow, May 2002.(Group)
‘Black Hill Horizon 2002’, VIC Gallery, Glasgow. March 2002.
(solo).
Koffer Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland. January 2002.
Upcoming exhibitions
Solo exhibition in Glasgow with ‘E merge D’
Group exhibitions in Mexico and Scotland
Ongoing Projects
www.leonorahennessy.com,
web based art works.
Collaborative installation and photographic work with New York based
artist Lauren Portada.
Awards
Hope Scott Trust, 2002. (Scotland)
Skowhegan Fellowship, 2002.
Limerick County Council Annual Arts Bursary, 2001.
Limerick VEC Educational Scholarship, 2001.
Irish Department of Education, Ministers Fund, 2001.