Yvonne
CULLIVAN
Yvonne is a Visual Artist currently based in Galway, Ireland. She works in a variety of media including photography, drawing, animation, video, construction, painting, printmaking and audio. Her process often involves engagement with the public. She graduated with a National Diploma in Fine Art and Design from Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology in 1998, from Crawford College of Art in 1999 with a Degree in Fine Art Printmaking and subsequently completed an M.Sc. in Multimedia at Dublin City University in 2001. Yvonne has exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions, including Iontas, Claremorris Open, Galway Arts Centre, Millennium Court, The Dock, Graphics Studio and 411 Galleries. She has undertaken residencies and projects in association with Craigavon County Council, The Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Kid’s Own Publishing Partnership and Leitrim, Cavan and Roscommon County Councils.
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My work evolves from a contemplation of transformation. Change may be occurring in an immediate sense; physical, emotional, cerebral, or in the external environment; social, geographical, cultural. There is also a reflection of time; evolution and transformation over time, acclimatization. Adaptation may follow at a slower, more subconscious pace to the transforming stimulus. The work bears witness to this cyclical process of change and adjustment to change; it observes, documents, quietly comments. There is a meditative quality present which is borne of a slow and thorough observation over time and which requests a similar quality of deliberation from its audience. The work attempts a sense of personal or social narrative or history. 
