Temple Bar Gallery + Studios has announced artist Sonia Shiel as the recipient of the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Residency, New York.
Sonia Shiel will now spend three months in residence at ISCP in Brooklyn, New York. This residency awards an artist with a high-quality studio, a travel, accommodation, and living stipend in addition to studio visits and off-site trips to museums, galleries and other cultural organisations. It supports an artist at a pivotal point in their practice with significant experience on a programme designed to build international links through a growing network of artists and curators who are ISCP alumni.
Sonia Shiel’s paintings take the shape of terrain, portal, pageant, puppet, and prop. In her exhibitions, ‘landscapes’ appear to possess a multi-dimensional capacity that stretches not only painting’s materiality, but also its temporal, liminal, and spatial qualities. In these otherworldly domains, humans, animals, plants and gods co-exist mechanically with phenomena – transposition, restoration, disembodiment, prediction and other metaphysical states.
Influenced by art history, theatre, mythology and literary fiction, Shiel’s work explores our capacity for self-determination, and often creates dynamic opportunities for performance.
Selected exhibitions include VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (2023–24); Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow (2023); Void Gallery, Derry (2019); The Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2018); the Crawford Gallery, Cork (2017); The Cable Factory, Helsinki (2016); and The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2024, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015). Selected collaborative projects include Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow; The School of Drama, UCD, Dublin; The Art and Law Program at Fordham University in New York.
