Creativity Tonic

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An exhibition of works created during lockdown by staff, students, and recent graduates across MTU
exploring how the arts have connected and supported us all.
  • A-C
    • Aidan Coffey
    • Ailbhe Barrett
    • Ailbhe Barrett
    • Andy Ingamells (with Seán Clancy)
    • Angela Burchill
    • Angela Burchill
    • Angela Burchill
    • Angela Burchill
    • Angela Burchill
    • Annemarie Courtney
    • Annemarie McCarthy
    • Anthony Lee
    • Barbara Kenneally
    • Barbara Kenneally
    • Barbara Kenneally
    • Barbara Kenneally
    • Bernie Hennessy
    • breda hogan
    • Bríd Heffernan
    • Chinna Devarapu
    • Cian O’Regan
    • Collaborations between Ellie Wall & Emanuelle Massa with Joseph Kerbey, Lily O’Connell Bass, Meghan Blyth, Jack Barrett, yan Perry and Thomas O’Callaghan
    • Colm O’Brien
    • Conor McBride
    • Conor McBride
    • Creativity & Change students
  • D-H
    • Deirdre Ryan
    • Derek O’Meara
    • Derek O’Meara
    • Édaein Samuels
    • Eileen Healy
    • Elise Hennebry
    • Eoin O’Bhroin
    • Fergal Goulding
    • Gabi Beuchert
    • Gala Tomasso
    • Helen Cantwell
    • Helen O’ Keeffe
    • Helen O’ Keeffe
    • Helen O’ Keeffe
    • Holly Walsh
    • Holly Walsh
    • Hugh Delap
  • I-L
    • Íde Ní Shúileabháin
    • Jack McGrath Marrinan
    • Jack McGrath Marrinan
    • Janani Hegarty
    • Jane Keane
    • Jill Dennis
    • Joe Bentley
    • Johnnoel Kenneally
    • Jordan O’Brien
    • Judy Lawler
    • Katie Whelan
    • Katie Whelan
    • Katrina Emtage
    • Keelin Tobin
    • Kevin Smith
    • Laura Dorney
    • Lauren Mcnamara
    • Leanne Gabriel
    • Lesley Cox
    • Lisa Zagone
    • Louise Foott
    • Louise Foott
    • Lucy Buckley
  • M-R
    • Marguerite O Connor
    • Marguerite O Connor
    • Maria Healy
    • Michael Hegarty
    • Mícheál Meenan
    • Natasha Bourke
    • Natasha Bourke
    • Natasha Bourke
    • Niall Malone
    • Paula Mongey
    • Paulina Firek
    • Pauline Kiernan
    • Peggoty Ransley
    • Rebecca Lyons
    • Róisín Mohally
    • Rosaleen Moore
    • Rosaleen Moore
  • S-Z
    • Samreen Umer
    • Sara Cashman
    • Sarah Kelly
    • Seán Mac Gearailt
    • Simon English
    • Sinead Barrett
    • Siobhan O Connor
    • Tara Coppinger
    • Teresa Twomey
    • Tom O’Sullivan
    • Tomás Cuddihy
    • Tommy Feehan
    • Tommy Feehan
    • Tommy Feehan
    • Zahid Aslam
    • Zoe Harley

What Remains.

Maria Healy

Maria Healy
Categories: Textiles.
My current work is in part an extension of work explored for my Degree show 2020. That work focused on the themes of Domicide, displacement and the subliminal tokens of absence which are present in ruins. What Remains further investigates these subliminal tokens of absence.I used an original black and white site specific photograph and digitally manipulated it to exaggerate the forms and shadows. Ruins act both as a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. They are traces of a lived experience and hold memories embedded into every stone. Ruins embody the sublime and the ethereal traces invoke both a response and a curiosity in our psyche. We are compelled to construct a narrative and to question what we behold in our gaze.The fact that these ruins would toppled and submerged imbues them with a melancholy and an air of despair. By using tapestry as a medium I am trying to weave the threads of memory and reconstruct the narrative surrounding these ruins. The various textures and thickness of threads and wools try to encompass the rich and varied lived histories of these ruins.The work was begun during the start of the second Covid 19 lockdown with the theme of site specific ruins. As I progressed into the third lockdown in January my thoughts were constantly drawn to the idea of ruin as a metaphor for the ruin of our former lives and freedoms pre Covid 19.Ruins present you with a choice whether to knock it and start again, build on what is left or remain static. It is similar with our lives now. Every thread I wove had the imprint of Lockdown on my life, embedded on them. What Remains for me?
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Creativity Tonic is an initiative of MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland

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