Margot Galvin
Territory
Screenprints on glass and aluminium with wooden stand, 30 x 35 x 4cm
Grove
Screenprint on aluminium mounted on birch block, 10 x 15 x 4cm
Terrain
Screenprints and paint on aluminium mounted on birch block, 18 x 35cm
Biography
Margot Galvin is an artist living and working in Dublin. She has an interest in using materials such as metal, wood and glass to print on and bring print, traditionally presented on paper, into 3D ‘print sculptures’, objects or assemblages. Margot graduated from NCAD in 2012 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art print and completed her Masters there in 2014. She has exhibited in the RHA and RUA annual exhibitions, Cairde, RUA RED, Galway Arts Festival, and had a solo show at Custom House Gallery, Westport in 2023. Her work is held in AXA, OPW, Law Society of Ireland, NCAD collections and many private collections.
Statement
Finding our place within the world is an important aspect of human existence and attachment to place is a powerful component in informing and shaping our identity. A need to belong, to be ‘at home’ somewhere is a fundamental human desire. It is this relationship between self and place and the implications for our identity that Margot Galvin explores in her work. Through intense engagement with selected locations these ideas are examined using drawing, print and paint. The resulting works are a composite of visual fact, feelings, memory and imagination.