Meet the Artist - Susan Buttner

Susan Buttner works with sculpture, performance, film and in collaborative contexts. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working with a group of women, sharing experiences of vulnerability and suffering, Chewing gum in my hair, addresses Mesh Implant Surgery, the on-going complications, often life limiting, the impact on the individual and collective body and the politics of female subjectivity. Buttner is from Fingal and was Draíocht’s Studio Artist in Residence 2020/21.

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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