Introducing the Artists.....

We are delighted to introduce the Artists who will be in Residence at Artspace for the rest of 2012



Ann Donnelly is an artist working mainly with video and photography, often in response to a sense of place. She has been an artist with the Kid's Own Virtual Residency Programme since the Further Afield phase that began in spring 2009 and recently received an ACES award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to support and develop her work. In both solo practice and collaborative projects, she continues to explore themes of being and belonging and her work has been exhibited internationally.

For the term of her residency, entitled Camera Obscura, Donnelly will explore the rich resources on site, combining traditional photographic skills and historical processes with digital imaging. To this end, the Artspace will become the camera -literally the room -in which to share some of the results of her practice.

'Accepting the Journey' 2011 Oil on Canvas by Emma Berkery

Emma Berkery is a visual artist based in Northern Ireland since 2004. She holds a Master of Fine Art from the University of Ulster and has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and the UK with a number of solo shows including 'Accepting the Journey' The Island Arts centre, Lisburn 2012 and ‘Overflow from the Tower’ with Limerick County Council 2010.

Berkery’s creative practice explores colour and form through the process of painting. Utilising the medium in its most fluid form, her stunning and powerful abstract art research creates fascinatingly intense and emotional results. Recently she has begun to compliment her oil painting with mixed media works on paper. These works explore how her ongoing photographic research into the relationship between landscape and human emotion, is translated into abstraction within the larger scale oil paintings.