Una Gildea
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Una Gildea STATEMENT I juxtapose recognizable found images and transformed cutouts into pictorial narratives that invite the viewer to apply their own stories. Narratives at once oddly recognizable, yet uncomfortably odd; narratives often downright obscene, whilst pushing the chuckle-button; narratives that always aim to open the chute direct to the subconscious, that provoke an intuitive, not literal, sense, of what’s going on. My work is analog–an X-ACTO knife and cutting mat my preferred tools. I also work in animation using traditional stop motion, working with cut-outs. This is a natural extension of my passion for collage, a moving collage, as it were! I love the challenge and the excitement of creating something new from that which already has its meaning, its context; leafing through old books and magazines, the connections made, the associations formed, the thought processes involved are all intuitive, happening in the subconscious. Abstraction of form and transformation of imagery are driving forces behind my collage work. BIO I studied Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and animation at the University of the West of England; I also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. My work–collage, pastel and pen and ink drawing–has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been selected and screened at international film festivals. My work is in the collections of Dublin City University and the Irish Contemporary Art Society. I now live and work in Dublin. See Gildea’s animation films HERE. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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