Siobhán Collins

Collins.siobhan.m@gmail.com /siobhancollins_art

Collins.siobhan.m@gmail.com /siobhancollins_art

About the member

Siobhán Collins is an Irish artist living in Cork, Ireland. She has an interdisciplinary background in fine art, English literature and critical theory. She has published articles on poetry, embodiment, perception, and aesthetics. Siobhán’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2019, and she is planning her first solo exhibition in 2024.

Education

2023: Diploma in Drawing and Painting, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, in progress.
2020: Diploma in Botanical Art. Society of Botanical Artists (SBA), London.
2016: QQI Training Delivery and Evaluation, FETAC Level 6, Cork.
2007: PhD in English Literature, UCC.
2001: BA in English and Philosophy, UCC.

Exhibitions

Annual Members Exhibition, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019.
Alchemical Vessels, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway, 2023.
Tonnta (Waves), Uilinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, 2023.
Outhouse online exhibition, Dublin, 2022.
Botanical & Floral Art in Bloom, Dublin, 2022, 2019.
Beframed Spring Tide Exhibition, St Patrick’s Woolen Mills, Douglas, Cork, 2022, 2021, 2020.
Art Exhibition, St Peter’s Cork, Cork, 2021.
Pluid: National Comfort Blanket, Dublin, 2021.
Plantae 2021, Online exhibition, Society of Botanical Artists, London, 2021.
Claregalway Castle Botanical Art Expo, Galway, 2019.

Siobhan
Collins

I’m interested in the complexities of embodiment and materiality. My work is continually evolving. My current research and art practice focuses on the sense of touch as a way of knowing and as a direct way of experiencing the other / world. Touch is intercorporeal, immediate and reversible – one can touch and be touched, both literally and figuratively. The reciprocal and reversible nature of touch challenges hierarchies and questions notions of separateness from nature. It blurs boundaries between self and other. Touch is bodily and often lingers in memory. This is what I aim for in my work.