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Kevin Mooney

kevin@kevinmooney.org /_kevinmooney /YouTube kevinmooney.org
kevin@kevinmooney.org /_kevinmooney /YouTube kevinmooney.org
Education

MFA, NCAD, 2012.
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Exhibitions

2019

  • Fragments of San Borondon, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ire – solo
  • Everything is in Everything, Sirius arts Centre, Cobh, Ire – group
  • The Painting Show, Sternview Gallery, Cork, Ire – group

2018

  • Apparition -Sternview Gallery, Cork – solo exhibition
  • EVA International (Contemporary Art biennial) Limerick- group exhibition with work selected by curator Inti Guerrero.

2017

  • The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart – Mayfield Arts Centre, Cork – co-curation of group exhibition and organisation of a concurrent series of artists’ talks.

2016

  • Twilight Head Cult – Context Art Fair, New York at Ormston House, Limerick, solo show

2015

  • What Is and What Might Be – Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda – selected group show

2014

  • Wave – Pallas Projects – solo show
    Dog Island Tales – Talbot Gallery – solo show

2012

  • Making Familiar – Temple Bar Gallery – selected group show
  • Horizon Sprawl – Ormston House – selected group show

2010

  • Video Killed the Radio Star – RHA, Ireland – selected group show Dog
  • Island Tales – Nag Gallery – solo show
  • Timeline – Queen Street Gallery Belfast – solo show

2009

  • Timeline – Mermaid Arts Centre – solo show

Kevin
Mooney

Kevin Mooney’s work traverses boundaries between history and myth. His paintings and sculptures originate from his curiosity about the histories of migration of Irish people and also his interest in the culture making actions of migrants in general. Fragmentary, historical and anarchic, these works challenge perceived notions of native folk cultures. Mooney’s materials are both established and fresh but he always plays with the notion of time. His use of clay, sticks, oil paint, rough jute, nails and varnish echo the 17th century artists working across mainstream European, African and folk art idioms that he seeks to connect with, conceptually and idiomatically. Mooney’s works appear both in this contemporary moment, and outside of time. Some appear aged and slightly broken down, as artefacts from an unknowable era. The works play with imagery and languages from historically and temporally disparate cultures, compressing time and history into the immediate space of the canvas or the sculpture. This immediacy and urgency brings an aliveness to the fore in Mooney’s deeply felt and historically informed practice.

Kevin Mooney
Puffs
2018
Kevin Mooney
Beast
2020
Kevin Mooney
Island
2020

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