Meet the Artist - Katherine Sankey

Katherine Sankey employs sculpture, video, drawing, painting and sound. Her sculpture uses living plant tissue and human supply lines to engage in the geo-feminist conversation about what we gouge and suck out of the planet. It examines mutation and the human extractive machine of supply and power in a multi species context. Sankey’s new site-specific work for Draíocht entitled Moduscopic, is also about how we humans engage with the utility aspects of our buildings/habitats. Sankey is a Dublin based artist and is currently Draíocht’s Studio Artist in Residence (June 2021 – January 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