Patricia McKenna
Take Hold
by Patricia McKenna from Saturday 1st May to Wednesday 26th May
Take Hold is a site specific new work by Patricia McKenna for Bluewall Gallery.
Patricia is an installation artist whose work is generally process and time based and often takes place in site-specific, non-art spaces.
Her work includes Marking the Land,which included the Grey House (Cavan, 1993-1994), Soil (Cavan and Dun Laoghaire, 1996-7) and True North (West Cork Arts Centre, 2005).
She has also exhibited in group shows in Europe and the US and received a number of public art commissions.
Her current work includes Between the Lines (thisisnotashop, Dublin, 2007, Seachange (Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Commission 2008) and Curious Sound Garden (Cavan, 2008).
She has been awarded a number of Arts Council Awards and travel grants, and also participated in residencies such as the Artist Work Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1997, Art Boundaries Unlimited, Tallahassee, Florida (2004) and been a Rockefeller scholar in Bellagio, Italy 2003. She was short listed for the IMMA/Glen Dimplex award in 1994.
Take Hold
