About The Artist
Tina is a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design (TUS) with a degree in Fine Art, Sculpture and Combined Media. Award winner of the Global Travel Award 2024 (TUS), Limerick City Gallery Award 2024 and recipient of the RHA & Áras Éanna Summer Residency. She is currently pursuing her MA in Fine Arts at LSAD.
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Tina’s sculptures invite viewers to journey with her, using humour as a lens to contemplate the evolution of familial dynamics and the preservation of moral values in an ever-changing Ireland. Her practice includes mixed media, sound and performance works, and wood carvings. The works are autobiographical narratives, sculpted reflections of her experiences navigating the complex realms of memory, motherhood, mental health and contemporary society. Growing up as a daughter of a carpenter, Tina’s father's craft instilled in her a deep appreciation for the versatility and richness of wood as material. Utilizing locally sourced wood, often reclaimed from felled trees due to rot or overgrowth, she carries on his legacy by employing both traditional and contemporary carving techniques to craft sculpture that bridge the past and present.
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"We felt that there was something compelling and unique about this artist’s
work, while personal – connecting with the universal, a deep and natural
connection between concept and the expression materially, clear intention
and ambition, a great curiosity of and for materials, and conceptual rigour, a practice that we felt would and will greatly benefit from the Global Travel
Award, and an artist who we imagine is one to watch, a genuine artistic
explorer whose practice we want to see further nurtured and developed
through this inspiring award." Aoife Ruane, Curator/Director, Highlanes Gallery.