Meadhbh McIlgorm is an Irish artist who tells stories through objects, installation, imagery and collaborative programming.
She studied Craft Design and History of Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, specialising in glass and graduating in 2013. She has been living and working in Belfast since 2015 after completing an MA in Arts Management in Queen's University. This experience in programming and project management has contributed to her expanded studio practice via the curatorial production of events and exhibitions with other artists and organisations.
She is a studio holder at QSS, a member of Visual Artists Ireland and the Glass Society of Ireland.
Meadhbh’s studio practice takes a material-centred approach to ephemeral phenomena, intangible concepts, and liminal states. She is interested in the traces of process, experience and time as recorded via materials. Entropy and disintegration are frequent themes in her work, with objects often utilising repurposed and reclaimed materials again and again, in ever smaller fragments. The qualities of reflection and transparency feature regularly in her image-based work which explores edges, thresholds and boundaries, where one thing blurs into another and is briefly, something else.
As a creative producer she has worked with many artists and arts organisations managing events, exhibitions, public engagement programmes and professional development opportunities. Increasingly, in both her studio and in expanded practice she is developing projects relating to sustainability, placemaking and our material heritage. She is particularly passionate about making and the skills associated with production, repair and reuse.
Services & Skills
Curation
Project Management
Arts Facilitation
Event Production
Creative Programming
Clients
R-Space Gallery
Studio idir & Starling Start Consortium
WheelWorks Arts
Craft Northern Ireland
Glass Society of Ireland
Belfast Print Workshop
Queens University Belfast
Creative Lives
Seacourt Print Workshop
Mid & East Antrim Bourgh Council