Aine Scannell

email: aine@no35.demon.co.uk

Statement by Aine Scannell
I use drawing and the computer in about equal measure in the process of creating my artworks. I may use found images from the Internet or other printed or broadcast media. Found objects as well - these feature more in installation works that I additionally make. While I was in Spain conducting studies I came more into contact with printmaking and began to realize that this was the 'right' area of the fine arts for me. I am fundamentally a graphic artist, in the true sense of the word.
I make work about 'being' or as Milan Kundera so beautifully expressed it 'the incredible lightness of being'. I explore the senses in which we are really quite fragile beings and only here for a short while. From obsessive-compulsive disorders and the deepest darkest of nighttime fears I may then go on to explore the madness of secret identities within the 'close bonds' of the family - to finally, the lingering 'id', that may hover within stem cells in a Petri dish in the laboratory

for more works and info on Aine Scannell please go to
http://www.ainescannell.org.uk
http://www.ainescannell.co.uk/

Recent exhibitions

2006
Semantica Casa Dura Gallery, Mieres, Asturias Spain.
http://www.kaosart.org/

2006
Emission Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Cannegio Venezia, Italy
http://www.emissionportfolio.org/

2006
Bird International touring exhibition
Gufang Gallery, Beijing, China

2005
Impact International printmaking portfolio
Univ der Künste Berlin

2005
Meeting in the Middle'internat. BOOKART Exhib.
Northampton Univ.Art Gallery,
UK Sculpture from Many different Angles Jersey Galleries
Osterley park, London UK

2005
Is Mail Art Dead curator Emma Powell
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

2005
Revolution, Feminism + Green Worlds PNP
Print Workshop, Melbourne Australia
http://www.pnp.org.au/OpPage.asp?OpID=1&Page=3

2005
Three Women Artists curated by Andrea Tierney
the Ark Gallery, London W5, UK

2005
Printed on the Mind' presented by the PMC. Morley Gallery, Southwark, London SE1 UK http://www.printmaker.com/pmc/members/viewmember.php?uid=30
Printmaking Today
James Pickering Gallery, Surrey Instit of Art and Design. Farnham UK

2004
Bound Less, curator Henry Meyric Hughes/Jan Christensen
Stenersenmuseet Oslo , Norway

2004
Field of Vision international collaborative project
The Lab Gallery New York USA
http://www.field-of-vision.net/NewYork/pages/field/foc/10/A.17.htm
Contemporary Prints 2
London Print Studio Gallery, Harrow Road, London W10. UK
http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/G2_current.html

2003
Independence
a Christian Boltanski collaborative project/exhibition,
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road , SE6 London, UK
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id=11&view=past

Collections
University of West England, Bristol, .U.K.
University of Middlesex London UK.
Muban Foundation London, UK
Irish Youth Foundation.London. UK
LCP collection University of the Arts London
Museo del Informazione, Sennigallia ,Italy.
Haringey Educational Arts Collection, London
Chang Mai University, Thailand
University of Portsmouth's School of Art UK
Historical Archive of Venice Biennale
Foundation Culture, Sion,, Vallais, Switzerland
Foundation Taylor, Paris France
London Print Studios UK
Chiang Mai Contemp. Art Museum, Thailand
Williamsburg Historic Art Cent, Brooklyn N.Y.

Private Collections
work held in collections in Australia, Switzerland, USA, Iceland, Spain, Japan, Ireland and UK

Residencies
Artist in residence at Lowick House Print Workshop Cumbria UK
Artist in residence at Gainsborough House Sudbury House UK