Meet the Artist - Ellen Duffy

Ellen Duffy works across sculptural assemblage, installation and more recently through mixed media works on paper. Her work playfully explores the vitality an object/material possesses once it is introduced to the network of an assemblage. Duffy looks at the world as existing in perpetually changing assemblages that create infinite networks. She enters into a dialogue between the work, the space and the viewer and it is here she seeks to find the tension between these inter-reliant components. Duffy is from Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15 and will be Draíocht’s Studio Artist in Residence 2022.

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Worlds of Their Own is the third in Draíocht Gallery’s PLATFORM series of exhibitions which showcases the work of early career artists and emergent practices. This exhibition presents the work of four artists: Susan Buttner, Ellen Duffy, John Rainey and Katherine Sankey whose installations, though conceived out of different circumstances, contexts and ideas are united in the scale of their distinctive ambitions. Their shared practice is encompassed in the term ‘installation art’ which involves the configuration of objects in a space often described as theatrical, experiential, immersive and which invites the viewer to step inside.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of short films each featuring the four exhibiting artists and the curator. These were created by filmmakers, Joe Lee and Tom Lee and commissioned by Draíocht.

PLATFORM 2021 - Worlds of Their Own
With artists Susan Buttner, Ellen Duffy, John Rainey & Katherine Sankey
Thu 16 Sep 2021 — Sat 22 Jan 2022
Ground Floor Gallery, Draíocht
Curated by Sharon Murphy