SIBYL MONTAGUE
Sibyl Montague works through sculpture, installation, video, drawing, sound and performance. Her practice explores counter narratives that deconstruct iconography and language, making work that reflects on inter-species relationships and human connections to land and resources. Drawing from everyday ‘poor’ material sources, ongoing series such as 'Handheld', 'Profit and Loss' and 'Blankets' feature collections of detritus and thrifted matter re-shaped to form new hybrid compositions through a process of sculptural assemblage. Drawing from the Irish language, Montague adapts oral and image based traditions of storytelling to re-centre knowledge and folklore gathered from urban, rural and ancestral communities, geographic and mythological sites. Montague's practice has at its heart an expression of fite fuaite - the concept of interconnectedness, belonging and the association between personhood, craft and materiality.
Recent exhibitions include Claí na Péiste/Worm's Ditch, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (TBG+S) Dublin (solo 2022); Hammerheads, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (2023); Fashion Show: Clothing Art and Activism, Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2022); The Narrow Gate of Here and Now – Social Fabric, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2021-22); 4Ever Chemical screening with AEMI, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (solo 2021); The Law is a White Dog, curated by Sarah Browne, TULCA, Galway Arts Centre (2020); SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL Carlow (solo 2020); Saplings, Pallas Projects, Dublin (solo 2018).
https://sibylmontague.com/
Kunstverein’s collaboration with Sibyl Montague is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.