Belfast, Northern Ireland 2000
From 1998-2000 Yvonne completed a Master of Fine Arts post-graduate qualification at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Based upon the experiences garnered during long walking trips in Ireland, Canada and Alaska, her art practice began to explore personal expressions of landscape, cityscape and the human condition using the medium of drawing.
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Project 1:
“Wish you were here to trip up memory lane”
Installation: charcoal drawing on layered tissue paper, white acrylic on the floor,180 x 180 x 420 cm
Presentation in The Engine Room Gallery , Belfast, 6/00
The multi-layered drawn images in this Installation refer to the cartographic process of walking in both rural and urban environments throughout Ireland. In “Found Elements II” a series of 360 images printed onto tissue paper form an installation that responds to the light, space and movements of the viewer.
“Memory Land”
"Memory Land" combines a series of drawing with two video images of the artist within a landscape.Two video screens at either end of the drawings provide a framefor the viewers imagination, inviting them to visualise traces of a landscape revealed through memory.
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Project 3:
14 days - 14 books
During a residency in Cushendall on the County Antrim coast of N.Ireland, a series of books were created.The residency was located in an old tower dating from the 1840’s. On daily walks, exploring the area, every day one book was made, drawn, bound and titled. These single-copy books, in leprorello style, are each of abround 20 pages and contain drawings and text in German and English, utilising ink, pencil, carbon paper and water colour.
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