A multi award winning artist, Myfanwy studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork city. She is the recipient of the Royal Dublin Society Mason Hayes & Curran LLP CC Irlandais Residency Award 2022, Sample Studios Associate Residency Award, National Sculpture Factory Residency Award and the Backwater Artist Studios Moving Image Bursary in 2022.
Her work has been shown as part of IndieCork, Living Canvas Dublin and Paris Photo with a solo show at the MTU Exhibition Centre and Studio 12 BAG Cork
Orla Comerford (@orla_comerford) is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across the mediums of video, audio, photography and woodwork. The exploration of glitch art and the question of who gets to see in high resolution are central themes in her practice. As a visually impaired artist glitch art and distortion of images is informed by how what she sees and how she encounters the world, is a distortion in its own sense.
Orla has been surrounded by a passion for woodworking, and the passing on of generational woodworking skills in her family has been an important subject matter in her work, also referencing the history of people with visual impairments in ‘Institutions for the Blind’ being taught tactile crafts as a means of employment in a society with no access to other opportunities.
While the artist’s video work asks the viewer to consider ways of seeing, it also focuses on the opportunities and accessibility that technology offers the visually impaired nowadays.
Orla received first-class honors in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in 2022. She has exhibited work in the Royal Dublin Society Visual Arts Awards Exhibition and received the RDS Members Fund Award.
About The Curator
Mark Joyce (@mark_joyce_) is an Irish artist, lecturer and occasional curator. As an artist, he explores the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from scientific and philosophical concepts of physical light.
He curated the initial Ireland‘s Eye in 2022 and has curated several exhibitions in Europe and Australia, such as Ingenious at The Drawing Project in Dublin in 2013 and The Way Things Are at Sydney Non Objective in 2010. He is currently a lecturer at IADT, Dublin.
About Isa Art Gallery
ISA Art Gallery is an art gallery and art consultancy firm based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Deborah Iskandar, the owner and President Director, has invested her network and experience in Southeast Asian art and has an intense passion for Indonesian contemporary art for over two decades.
