Meet the Artist - John Rainey

John Rainey works with sculpture and installation. He makes reinterpretations and remakes of familiar forms using both old and new methods of object making; a combination of traditional casting processes in materials like porcelain, with digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printing. His sculptures, emerging from periods of working back and forth between physical and digital worlds, explore how digital cultures and advancing technologies shape new approaches for representing the body. Rainey is a Belfast based artist where he is a member of Flax Art Studios.

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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