MTU Crawford College of Art & Design presents

Masters in Art and Process (MA:AP) 2021 Degree Show

PLUS/MINUS

PLUS/MINUS offers a time and space to view new works made through a year defined by fluctuations. It is a grouping of diverse artistic practices, including installation, sculpture, print, photography, and painting. The exhibition presents artworks from: Jamie Ashforth, Síomha Callanan, and Michael Hegarty.

We are delighted to be able to invite you to experience the work in person via appointment. Valid evidence of immunity and current photo ID are required for admittance with your Eventbrite booking.

Please book for exhibition entry on the hour. Max attendance is 10 people per hourly slot. Please arrive just before the hour outside 46 Grand Parade. Entry will be prompt. There will be no entry after 5 mins past the hour.

PLUS/MINUS Exhibition Statement:

Artmaking is a call and response informed by its context. Recent experiences have been largely defined by separation and restriction and we have limited our lives in search of safety. The artists presented here share distinct and diverse bodies of work that reference their process through these constraints. Their physical acts of artmaking have been largely solitary practices within changeable circumstances, through arrivals and departures, moving between here or there, having more or less. PLUS/MINUS is therefore about what’s been lost and found, what’s been added and subtracted during this time. This complexity of perspectives sheds light on our individual experiences, communicating a sense of ebb and flow which defines the contemporary moment.

Michael Hegarty, Undulating Canvas II (Silver Rhombuses) DETAIL, Readymade Eyelet Curtains and Curtain Pole, 183 x 400cm

Síomha Callanan, Untitled, Cork City, 2021, 35mm colour film

Jamie Ashforth, Shelter I - process shot, 2021, Mixed Media Assemblage