About

Mairead Dunne is an Irish artist and illustrator based in Cornwall, Uk. After graduating with an MFA at the University of Belfast, she went on to study an MA in Authorial Illustration at Falmouth University. During that time she illustrated ‘the clearing’ by Luke Thompson, winning the Michael Marks Illustrated Poetry Award at the British Library, London, 2016.

Her work explores the role of model-making in contemporary art and illustration, shifting between intimate photographic viewpoints and site-specific installations. Working predominately with miniature tableau's, each piece is carefully composed adapting elements of theatre and illusion. The work is influenced by early animation effects and shot using experimental photography techniques.

The work considers ideas such as the celestial, transience, isolation, and the photographic metaphor 'the passage from darkness to light’. These ideas are often forged within the physical spaces of the work - within the rocks, and the water, and the many reflections that define its illusory environment. Drawing on the idea of the mini theatre; these otherworldly scenes drift somewhere between melancholy and play, in an attempt to reconcile the real and the imagined.

Contact: dunnemairead@yahoo.com
https://www.instagram.com/maireaddunne_art/