Artist in Residence | AIleen Barr

Описание: This video is about Donegal born artist and founder member of Artlink Aileen Barr, who was in residence at Fort Dunree in 2018 and 2019.

Aileen studied Craft Design at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, specializing in Ceramics and has been creating handmade tile projects for the public arena for the past 22 years. As well as establishing Artlink (with Marie Barrett and Lisa Spillane), she lead a number of community based Public Art projects in Donegal through Artist in Residence in Schools projects and Artist in the Community projects before emigrating to the United States in 2002.

Since relocating to San Francisco she has completed several large scale public art projects. As a teaching artist she developed a pilot programme at the Oakland Museum of California in Art and Literacy with immigrant families. In 2003 she was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to design a public art project for a community centre in the West Portal area of the city and in the summer of 2005 she completed her second large scale public art work, the Tiled Step project at 16th Avenue, also in San Francisco. This was a collaborative project with US artist Colette Crutcher and was commissioned by the local community. She collaborated again with Colette Crutcher in 2013 on the ‘Hidden Garden Steps’ project.

Community engagement has always been part of Aileen’s working process and can take various forms, from community consultations to hands on collaborations. Her recent artwork broadly reflects the natural environment in an urban context. Thematic interests include flora, fauna and cultural history.

During her residency at Artlink, Fort Dunree, she created artwork in response to the natural environment of Dunree, combining this with elements from Fort Dunree Museum's military collections, and engaging Artlink members in a series of hands on workshops. The work resulting from the residency is now installed in discreet locations around the fort.