AISLING
O’ BEIRN, FLAXART STUDIOS,
44-46 Corporation Street, Belfast, BT1 3HA
Tel: 0044 (0) 28 90234300
web www.aislingobeirn.fsnet.co.uk
Represented by The Third Space
Suit 11 / 12, Scottish Mutual Buliding
16 Donegall Sq North
Belfast
BT1 5JA
Tel: 0044 (0) 28 90237757
EDUCATION; 1990, BA ( HONS ) FINEART, SCULPTURE, UNIVERSITY
OF ULSTER, AT BELFAST
PhD, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, 2005
ONE PERSON SHOWS
2006
..AND OTHER STOREYS’ Void, Derry,
curated by C.Darke and M. O’ Boyle
2005
A SMALL URBAN INVENTORY, Golden Thread Gallery
2004
'HOME TOWN' video, Atrium Galway County Hall Oct 2004, Galway City
2001
TEMPORARY PROVISIONS, installation Ormeau Baths Gallery 3, Belfast, March Curated
by Hugh Mulholland
1999
BUREAU, commissioned instillation, Dun Laoghaire County. Hall, Concourse space
Curated by Clionadh Shaffery
RENDER, ARECIPE FOR GESSO, Video, Heritage centre Seattle Curated by Matthew
Lennon
1998
PLANETARIUM, Temple Bar Gallery's Atrium Curated by Nora Norton
CULTIVATE, OMAC, Belfast Curated by James Kerr
1997
MODELLING STANDS, Uni. of Ulster, Belfast Curated byAllister Wilson
CULTIVATE, Context Gallery Derry Curated by Hugh Mulholland
1996
WANDERING SAILOR, Triskel Arts Centre Cork
1995
GIOLLACHA HEICSEAGANACHA, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Curated by Fiaich McCongaile
1994
MANY DEPARTURES AVAILABLE, Context Gallery Derry, Beyond Borders Curated by Hugh
Mulholland
BOOTSCRAPERS, Beyond Borders Public sculpture commission, Derry Donegal border.
Curated by Hugh Mulholland
1993
CRUCH SUAS E Ballai Bana, Belfast
NECESSARY ACCESSORIES Werkstadt Gallerie, Bremen, Germany
1992
A PARISH MAP, OMAC, Belfast Curated by Una McCarthy
HIDDEN HISTORIES Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. Curated by Chris Bailey
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2006
Two Person Show with R. Buchannen,
Ards Arts Centre, curated by Fully Formed Projects, May 2006
2002
URBAN PROJECTS, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, two person show with M. Potrc,
curated by Gail Prentice
1998
PANORAMA, two person show with L. Burrell, Tier Garten, curated by Marcel Hager
with Unwahr Bureau, Berlin. July
SELECTED GROUP
SHOWS
2006
SPACE SHUTTLE 2006/7, Lr Garfield Street and PS2, Belfast,
curated by P. Muschler
OBSCURED BY ARCHITECTURE, South Dublin Co. Council,
curated by M. Dewmpsey
DOGS HAVE NO RELIGION, The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, curated by R. Drury,
June
TRANSART,
City Bus Belfast and Place, Belfast, curated by Creative
Exchange
PACKED, Mercer University Art, Macon, Georgia USA, curated by M. Lennon, S. Taylor
and S. Miller
‘CLUSTER’ Participant Inc. NY curated by Katie Holton
‘
PLATFORM 1’, Knockbride Rectory, Bailiborough, Co. Cavan, curated by
Niamh Smyth, Jan
‘
THE LONDON ART FAIR’ with Golden Thread Gallery, Jan
2005
THE NATURE OF THINGS: Artists From Northern Ireland At
The 51st Venice Biennale, Ormeau Baths Gallery, curator H.
Mulholland Dec ‘05
VENICE BIENNIALE, ‘The Nature of Things: A Long Weekend’.
Artists from Northern Ireland at the 51st Venice Biennale,
curator H. Mulholland Oct 2005
CITY/ OBSERVER, hosted on Rhizome, curated by Yukie Kamiya,
NO TOPLESS BATHING: Belfast Has Suffered Enough’ Group
Show, La Sala Naranja Gallery, Valencia, Spain, May 2005 ,
Curated by Ima Pico
‘
RISK’ Group show and Workshop / Residency CCA Glasgow, curated by Ele Carpenter
‘THE BELFAST WAY’ Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv,
Israel March 2005. Curated by S. Edelsztein
2004
THINKING OF IDEAS', group show, Golden Thread Gallery,
Nov 2004, curated by P. Richards
PERSPECTIVE, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, curated by .V. Urbaini
Art Fron The Rucksack 2, Ireland/Florida artist exchange exhibition.
Gainesville University Gallery, Florida USA, Curated by M. Lennon
and S. Millar and S.Taylor
EV_+A, Limerick city council and various locations Limerick
city, curated by Z. Badovinac
BEL+AST Likovni Salon, Celje Slovenia, curated by N. Sivavec
Group show, University of Florida, Gainsville , Florida, Curated
by M. Lennon
2003
'HOME TOWN, NICK NAMES' site specific project, various locations
Galway City, Tulca Festival, curated by M. Dempsey, Galway Arts Centre,
Oct 2003
THINK OVER, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome, curated by B. Kennedy Oct 2003
SESTAVA: Metelkova Barracks Ljubljana., Slovenia. Conversion of former Barrack
Cell to youth hostel room, Collaboration with F. Purg June 2003
GOLDEN MILE PROJECT: Revelations Internet Café,. Belfast Site specific
project Curated by A. Darby, Fully Formed Projects: April 2003
RETURN, Group show, Goeth Institute, Dublin, Feb 03
2002
CETINJE BEINNIAL 'RECONSTRUCTIONS', Speaking to the man on the street' Urban
Myths, Cetinje, Monternegro Yougoslavia Curator:: Iara Boubnova June
SITE-ATIONS: Waterfront Stories, site specific project Staten Island Ferry Terminal
and WSIA 88.9FM Radio New York, June
CLUSTER, Group evening event, curated by K. Holten, Bowe'' Pub, Dublin
20/20 Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
LEABHAR MOR NA GAILGE Collaborative project between Irish and Scottish artists
and poets Exhibition touring Oct 2002 on. Book published Oct 2002
2001
URBAN CONTROL 1, Forum Stadzpark,Graz, Austria, curator J. Becker
EVA, Virtual Urban with M. Potrc Limerick city Library curator S. Hassan, March
INSTALL, Temporary Project for opening of Island Arts Center and Lisburn Civic
Offices June 2001
2000
'CELJE BLOW UP: Critical Views, Concrete Situations' Group show
Galerija Sodobne Umetnosti, Celje, Slovenia 'Time Piece', Group Show,
Galway City Museum
stART Site Specific Show Scotch Quay, Waterford City May
Work featured from 'Virtual Urban', collaborative website work in progress with
M. Potrc, Skuc Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999
IRELAND / SLOVENIA EXCHANGE, Irish leg of exchange, Catalyst Arts, Belfast Nov
'99 artist organised event, co- organiser
HORSEHEAD, public sculpture project Culturlann McAdam O' Fiaich, , Belfast
BOUNDRIES, group show Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
FREEZE, Art House, Temple Bar, Dublin Group projection festival
WOOD, Group show touring, Canada
1998
ONE FOR THE BODY, Group show, Monaghan Museum. Sept.
RECONTRE DES ARTISTES DU QUATRIEMEPROGRAMME DU PEPINIERE, Pepiniere conference
and group show, Instituto Cervantes, Paris Jan.
BRITISH ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND, CULTURE AND CONFLICT, Puffin Room Gallery, New
York, March. INTERMEDIA, Triskel Arts Center,Cork
FIX, Catalyst Arts, June
1997
GRAFISCHE OBJEKTE, Druckwerkstadt Gallery, Bremen, Germany, Feb.
ROLLING DEVOLUTION Touring show, Scotland and Ireland, curator B. McAvera
COLDFRAME, Collaborative public art project, Duthie Winter Gardens, Aberdeen
THE BEAUTIFUL JUNK SHOP, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Aug.
ART FROM THE RUCKSACK, Ireland / Slovenia Exchange, Salon and Museum, Celje,
SKUC Gallery Ljubljana, day of performance
1996
IRELAND / ICELAND EXCHANGE, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, March
1995
WORDS, Don't stand on trifles, Apex Gallery, Portsmouth, Jan EVA 1995, Limerick
City Hall, adjudicator, M de Corral, Madrid, Open Award Winner
ATLANTIANS, Ireland Iceland Exchange, Gallerie B. Andresson, Reykavik, Iceland
ARCADIA, Emperors New Cloths, North St. Arcade, Belfast, ART, RESISTANCE AND
THE ENGLISH GARDEN, Gallerie N. Marquardt, Paris Sarajvo, Tusla, touring
NORTH WEST ARTS, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, selectors J. Fenderesky, B. McFarland
1994
NORTH, Head Gallery, Dublin BELFAST BREMEN EXCHANGE, Old Museum Arts Centre,
Belfast
STILL BUOYANT, Installation for opening of Catalyst Arts, Belfast 1993
EVA, Limerick City Gallery, Adjudicator G. Moure, Barcelona MONAGHAN OPEN EXHIBITION,
Monaghan Museum adjudicator S. Sverakova
STILL LIVES Arts
Council N.I. touring show
PERFORMANCE
AND LIVE EVENTS
1998
DESCRIBE day event, Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork FIX, Catalyst Arts,
Belfast
1996
DESCRIBE Ihr long event, Gallerie Stuc, Lubijilana, Slovenia.
COLLABORATIONS
2003
SESTAVA: Metelkova Barracks Ljubljana., Slovenia. Conversion of former Barrack
Cell to youth hostel room, Collaboration with F. Purg June 2003
2000
VIRTUAL URBAN, collaborative web project with Marjetica Potrc http://www.potrc.org/vu
1997
COLDFRAME, Collaborative public
Art Work project Duthie Park Winter Gardens, Aberdeen., Aberdeen International
Youth Festival. M. Bell, L. Conaghar and J. Stanley.
AWARDS AND
BURSARIES
2004
Arts
Council of Northern Ireland Award
2003
Gottlieb Foundation Grant, NY
2002
ArtsConcil of Northern Ireland Award Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award CRC
Award
2001
Arts Council N.I. Bursary Art Flight NY Arts Council, Aerlingus 2000
CRC, Dept Foreign Affairs Award to partake in exhibition 'BLOW UP' , Celje' Slovenia,
June Art Flight, Arts Council Aer Lingus invited to NY for Snug Harbour Conference,
Arts Council N.I. Award Arts Council Award for production of Virtual Urban web
site
1998
Art Flight, Arts Council, Aer Lingus New York for participation in group show
Arts Council N.I. Award,C.R.C. joint Award Shortlisted for Derry Civic Offices
Commission, Shortlisted for 1798 New Ross commission
1997
British Council Travel Award, C.R.C. Award, Arts Council N.I. Award, Belfast
City Council travel Award, Shortlisted for Dublin Corpo. Commission 1% for Art
with M. Hogg
1996
Pepiniere Programme, Irish participant, Sculpture, Bratislava, Slovakia 96 /
97 Arts Council N.I. Award
1995
EVA Open Award winner, adjudicator, M. Coral, Madrid, Shortlisted for PS1, New
York, Shortlisted for Dun Laoghaire Council Architectural collaborative commission
1994
Arts Council N.I Award, Arts Council Ireland Award
1993
Arts Council N.I. Award, Art Flight, Frankfurt 1992 Arts Council N.I Award
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CATALOGUES
AND REVIEWS
2004
EV+A 2004 IMAGINE LKIMERICK, (Limerick, Eva 2004) p118-121
EV+A, Review Art Monthly, Niamh Anne Kelly
Home Town, Review by Marie-Louise Blaney CIRCA no 107
2003
Rome: Think Over at Rialto Santambrogio, review R. Read, CIRCA No. 106 p. 79
Women and cities: selected artworks from Belfast, Dr. Suzanna Chan, The Cities
of Belfast, ed. Nicholas Allen + Aaron Kelly ISBN 1-85182-785-4. Four Courts
Press, 2003Cities of Belfast, pg 211, 215-217
Golden Mile, review R. Jones, CIRCA No. 105 p. 82
Potrc, Marjetica, 'Urban Negotion; 'Virtual Urban' Institut Valencia D'Art Modern
(22-v/7-ix, 2003, p 151-162
'Golden Mile Stories' Golden Mile, 'See', Circa Issue 103, Spring '03 p. 26
ÁrnyÉékkötók, Co Media ,No. 32 Feb 2003 2002
Site-Ations Artfront Waterfront Article by M. Galvin, Sculptors Society of Ireland
, Oct
2002
LEABHAR MOR NA GAILGE Collaborative project between Irish and Scottish artists
and poets. Book published Oct 2002
Cetinjski Bijenale 1V Rekonstrukcija/ Cetinje Biennial, Reconstructions catalogue
2002 p. 70
2001
EVA Catalogue, essay M. Hassan
TEMPORARY PROVISIONS, Belfast Review Suzanna Chan CIRCA 96
APERTO BELFAST, Flash Art D. Jewsbury Summer '01 2000 Digital Creativity Vol
12 No 1 pp.45- Interview by L. McGough.
CATALOGUE Dun-Laoghaire Rathdown Borough Councils Commissions 1999 Catalogue
essay Angeline Morrison. P 10-12
BLOWUP catalogue Essay Irena Cercnik
1999
ALMANAC, JURGEN SCHNEIDER, book on Irish art, Unrast 99 OUT OF BELFAST catalogue,
J. Sperling, Ed. Denison University Art Gallery p88 -94
ART FROM A RUCKSACK, catalogue,Ireland Slovenia exchange
1998
PLANETARIUM R. O' Cuive, Circa Spring'98, S.S.I. Newsletter, Summer '98 Sunday
Times May 10, Irish Times, March, S.S.I Newsletter May / June, Temple Bar Review,
Apr.
CULTURE AND CONFLICT, CIRCA, Summer '98, Fortnight, May, PEPINIERE Catalogue
Feb. '98
1997
IN CONTEXT, Issue 1. Jan.
ROLLING DEVOLUTION, Catalogue essay, B. McAvera Coldframe Collaboration Grampion
t.v.
THE BEAUTIFUL JUNK SHOP, Sunday Times, G.Weston Sept.
1996
IRELANED / ICELAND EXCHANGE Catalogue, ARCADIA Catalogue
1995
EUROPEAN FINE ART SYMPOSIUM Catalogue, Leeds Metropolitan University, K,O' Brien
ed. p.36-37
HEXAGONAL REEDS, A. Dunne, Sunday Tribune, Jan. L. Clancey, Irish Times Jan CIRCA,
M. Moroney, Spring '95
ART AND CEASEFIRE N.I. Broad Sheet, R. Martin March '95 EVA Review M. Ruane Sunday
Times, Apr.
CURSAI EALAINE, Dec. '95
1994
BEYOND BORDERS, CIRCA, Winter '94, C. Darke, Sunday Times G. Weston
BELFAST BREMEN Catalogue 1992
THE FINAL FRONTIER,CIRCA, Spring '93 Dr. S. Sverakova,
ART AND NATIONALITY, pamplet Dr. S. Sverakova,
A PARISH MAP, Irish News, Aug.
PUBLICATIONS
2005
‘Venice: The long weekend’ Valerie Connor , CIRCA, Issue 114,
Winter 2005
‘
Northern Ireland at the 51st Venice Biennale’ Francesca Bonetta’ CIRCA,
Issue 114, Winter 2005
The Multitude: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale,
CIRCA, Issue 112, Summer 2005
CIRCA Herzliya: The Belfast Way at Hezliya Museum of Art, CIRCA, Issue 112, Summer
2005
2004
C- Zines, Review CIRCA, Autumn 2004 Catalogue Essay 'Fix 2002' , (Belfast,
Catalyst Arts 2004)
Integrated Artworks Project, New Works, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Catalogue
essay
FIX 2002 Fifth Biennial of Performance Art Festival, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Catalogue
Essay 2004 (Belfast, Catalyst Arts 2004)
2003
' What is a Millie? Mulling on Millies', The Vacum, Its Citywide: Stereotypes'
A. O' Beirn June 2003, p.3 2002
BELFAST LIONS CLUB :Another Urban Myth Exploded Article A. O' Beirn with S. Hackett,
Citywide Magasine, Factotum May 02
2001
TRACKING THE URBAN ANIMAL, A. O' Beirn interview with M. Potrc, CIRCA 97 www.recirca.com
'Strategies of Navigation, presentation on Flaxart Studios International Residency
Program, part of, URBAN CONTROL 1, Forum Stadzpark,Graz, Austria, curator J.
Becker
1999
'About Town'. CARTOGRAPHY AND THE CITY, article in paper published by Catalyst
Arts Nov '00 p. 28/29
RESIDENCIES
2005
RISK LabCulture, PVA Residency CCA, Glasgow
2004
LabCulture
Belfast, PVA Residency, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast Queen St
Studios Digital Residency April -Aug
2001
SITE-ATATIONS conference Research residency Snug Harbour Arts Center Staten Island,
New York July 2001 1999 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, LONG KESH / MAZE During May
1999
I produced a body of architectural plaster casts recording the nature of the
jail 1999 1998 COLDFRAME, Collaborative public Art Work project Duthie Park Winter
Gardens, Aberdeen., Aberdeen International Youth Festival. M. Bell, L. Conaghar
and J. Stanley. 1997
PEPINIERE RESIDENCY, Irish participant, Sculpture Bratislava, Slovakia. '96 /
'97
1994
EUROPEAN FINE ART SYMPOSIUM, Leeds Metropolitan University, Invited participant
'94
ARTIST ORGANISED EXCHANGES
IRELAND SLOVENIA EXCHANGE, participant in this artist organised event. '97 /
'99
IRELAND ICELAND EXCHANGE, Participant and co organiser
BELFAST BREMEN EXCHANGE, Participant and co. organiser, '93
COMMISSIONS
Public commission for DOE. 'Travelling Landscape', Underpass at Governors Bridge,
Belfast 2001
BEYOND BORDERS, 'Shoe Lasts' Public commission for project '96
MEMBER OF VARIOUS % for ART PANELS Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown, 1999 2001
TEACHING
ASSOCIATE LECTURER, Sculpture, University of Ulster, Belfast 2004 ongoing
PART TIME LECTURER, Dublin Institute of Technology 2001/ 2004
EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, Sculpture Diploma, Limerick Institute of Technology 2003/
ongoing
PART TIME VISITING LECTURER, (previous) Galway Mayo Institute of Technology,
Limerick School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, National College
of Art and Design and Dun Laoghaire Art College Since 1995 Have given lectures
in various UK Colleges as well as Cornish College, Seattle, USA Since 1995
WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS, have conducted various workshops in schools, Galleries
and Hospital 1996-current
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, LONG KESH / MAZE May 1999 Series of workshops with prisoners
BRONZE CASTING SYMPOSIUM, ORCHARD GALLERY DERRY, Foundry work,
assistant to S. Hurst bronze casting workshops '94
PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES
SCULPTORS SOCIETY OF IRELAND, Board member 2001 2005
SUSTRANS Arts Co-ordinator. co ordination of commissioning of new public artwork
for the National Cycle Network in the North of Ireland 1999-2000.
N.I. HOUSING EXECUTIVE, Conducted research along with B. Marron into public artwork
project for Clonard area in association with Clonard Residence Association. 1998
'95 BIG SPOON Magazine member of visual arts panel and contributer, '95 /'96
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
FLAXART STUDIOS, director and board member of studios where I am based.
I am involved in all Flax Arts activities, ongoing
Associate Lecturer, University of Ulster
Member of SUS.DIV (Sustainable Diversities), pan European network of
institutes and research groups exploring cultural diversity ongoing
Member Catalyst Arts
Member Visual Artists Ireland
CENTRIFUGAL, Collaborative site specific project across 4 sites Belfsat,
London, Helsinki and Zagreb 2005 / 2007, Curated by Susan Kelly
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 3 , public project in temporary space shuttle,
North St. Sept 2006, Curated by P. Mushler PS2
I PERSON SHOW, The Third Space, Belfast, curated by H. Mulholland,
2007
CENTRIFUGAL, Collaborative site specific project across 4 sites Belfsat,
London, Helsinki and Zagreb 2006 / 2007, Curated by Susan Kelly Ongoing
LOCOMOTIVE MEDIA PROJECT, Curated by D. Jewesbury, Centre for Media
Research, University of Ulster, Site specific project exploring locomotive
media and rural networks. 2007 onwards, details to be arranged.
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