Majella Clancy is currently a practice-led PhD student at The University of Ulster, Belfast. Her research is an investigation into social, cultural, geographical and pictorial space in contemporary women’s painting.

Her practice addresses painting that incorporates other media, namely photography and printmaking. Working with digitally manipulated inkjet prints she responds to the images through a variety of paint applications. In her practice imagery documenting specific class and gendered spaces in Sri Lankan culture collaborates with imagery from her Irish rural background. These images also document specific class and gendered space. By merging seeming disparate cultural imagery with paint, her practice questions, not only the purity of painted space materially but also fixed ideas of cultural identity in a contemporary context. In her practice, cross-cultural experiences are addressed in ways specific to particular histories and cultural identities, exploring fragmented and shifting spaces. By dissolving boundaries both material and cultural her practice offers an expansive reading that can be both multiple and provisional.

Artist’s Website

http://www.majellaclancy.com/altered-realty.html

Image Details

Division II

2009

Oil and on Inkjet Print on Dibond

59cm x 76cm

 

Drawing III

2008

Oil on Inkjet Print on Dibond

17cm x 26cm

 

Inside/ Outside IV

2011

Oil and Silkscreen on Inkjet Print

51cm x 60cm

 

Land Space II

2010

Oil and Gouache on Inkjet Print on Dibond

51cm x 61cm

 

Peripheral Space IV

2010

Silkscreen and Gouache on Inkjet Print

18.5cm x 25cm

 

Play Off

2009

Oil and on Inkjet Print on Dibond

59cm x 76cm