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Ida Mitrani

/idamitrani idamitrani.org
/idamitrani idamitrani.org
About the member

Ida Mitrani is a Turkish born French artist and art facilitator living in Ireland since 1997. She received a First Class Honours Masters degree in Art and Process from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2021.

Education
  • First Class Honours Masters degree in Art and Process from the Crawford College of Art and Design, 2021
  • BA in Fine Art from the Institute of Art and Design & Technology Dun Laoghaire, 2003.
Exhibitions

2023

  • Looking Seeing – Curated by Dorothy Smith – Droichead Arts Centre
  • How It’s Made – Curated by Valeria Ceregini – Balbriggan
  • Meant to Fade – Curated by Katerina Gribkoff & Phoebe Tohl – Laneway gallery – Cork
  • Art Works! – Contemporary Art Auction in support of Pallas Projects/Studios – Dublin

2022

  • Drawing Connections – Sample-Studios in collaboration with CCAD Drawbridge at MTU & Crawford Art Gallery cork
  • With Other Matter – Curated by Naomi Draper – Roscommon Arts Centre

2021

  • ‘Woman in the Machine’ in Visual Carlow and in GOMA, Waterford.

 

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Ida’s multidisciplinary practice explores concepts of social ecology and critical plant studies including plant blindness, post-naturalism, hybridity and the notion of human and plant displacement. She gets inspiration from careful observations of plants, and from a constant flux of images that she digitally manipulates, reproducing the natural biorhythm of creation and destruction through technology. Collages of digitised images and plant-shaped plastics evoke the notion of mimicry in which organisms simultaneously evolve to resemble and compete with one another.

The act and language of drawing is essential to her practice in creating a continuity and connection between the various elements and materials found during her walks. The work generated represents other realities of a world where the entangling of various forms, human and non-human, brings the conception of new life.

She has taken part in several group exhibitions including Droichead Arts Centre, Roscommon Arts Centre, Visual Carlow, GOMA Waterford, Lexicon Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Oonagh Young Gallery, Cross Gallery, and a solo show in NAG in Dublin.

Awards include the Arts Council Agility Award (2022), Dublin Arts Office residential space (2022), and the Arts for Health residency award at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre (2021)

Her work is now part of the HSE public collection, Crawford MAAP Graduate Collection, the public collection in the National Library in Dublin, the National Archives of Ireland, and the Arts Office in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.

Ida Mitrani
Synthetic Mimicry, mixed media drawing & collage combined with moss, human hair, cut-outs, digitised images on paper, plastic. All stitched with synthetic mesh, 60 x 70.5 cm
2021
Ida Mitrani
(Detail) Malleable realities, floor installation, mixed media drawing & collage combined with moss, human hair, cut-outs, digitised images on paper & plastic. Roscommon Arts Centre/Roscommon, 70x 130x 250 cm
2022
Ida Mitrani
(Detail) Malleable realities, wall installation, mixed media drawing & collage combined with moss, human hair, cut-outs, digitised images on paper & plastic. All stitched with synthetic open mesh Roscommon Arts Centre/Roscommon, 70x 130x 250 cm
2022
Ida Mitrani
'Amalgam of Linear conceptions' - Mixed media drawing on paper, collage, digital images, plastic and paper cutouts, synthetic mesh netting, plastic sculptures, wire and organic life forms
Ida Mitrani
From the 'Entangled' series - Hybrid I, pencil and graphite powder on paper, 73x56cm (86x59cm framed)
Ida Mitrani
From the 'Entangled' series - Hybrid II, pencil and graphite powder on paper, 73x56cm (86x59cm framed)