Who: Marilyn Gaffney.
Where: Westmeath, Ireland.
What: Marilyn is a visual artist and John O’Leary award winner.
She obtained a First Class Honours degree from Sligo IT.
She is currently studying Masters Fine Art at National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
In Her Words:
I am interested in psychology of the unconscious in relation to people’s reactions to situations and in particular, traumatic events. I am highlighting people’s reactions to events that may have happened to them but are suppressed within them. These are lost under the realms of the unconscious and therefore may not be apparent. How a person responds and interacts unlocks some part of the repressed.
I visually interpret a person’s reaction in a scene. This person may be passive or dominant, acting out or in control of a situation; consensual or not. The translucent materials I use relate to realms of the unconscious. I am especially influenced by the French landscape and its people having spent some time there. The places when merged are like a dream where locations join and become surreal. This is the backdrop of my work where superimposed drawings and prints of figures fill the scene. The silhouettes of the work can be described as fragments of stories or an overcast cloud of a repressed memory or dream.
La Muse offered me the time and space to create works that reflect my interests, being surrounded by beautiful landscape and supportive people.
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