Jennifer
CUNNINGHAM
Jennifer Cunningham was born in Galway in 1978. She grew up in an urban area and this has influenced her work. She graduated with a first class honours degree from GMIT in 2002 and was a guest artist with Artspace Studios until 2006. She specialises in copper etching, produces short films and also paints. Her work is figurative with a strong narrative content. She is currently studying a Masters in fine art in N.C.A.D in Dublin.
She has won several awards for her work including the Henry Higgins Travelling Scholarship and the Taylor art award at the R.D.S in 2002.
Past winners of RDS Prizes have included Walter Osborne, William Orpen, Louis le Brocquy and Dorothy Cross.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
Goldstar- M.F.A. end of 1st year show
Two person show at the Mermaid Ats centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
2006
Two printmakers-a two person show in the Kennys Art Gallery Galway
Chimera - Artspace group show as part of the Galway arts festival
R.H.A Annual Summer Exhibition
2005
Wasteland - Solo show in the White room gallery, as part of the Tulca festival of Visual art
Group Show at the Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill, Galway
R.H.A Annual Summer Exhibition
2004
R.H.A Annual Art Auction
Menagarie - 4 person show, City hall, College road, Galway
R.H.A Annual Summer Exhibition
2003
Flight - Solo Show as part of the Tulca Festival of Visual Art
Iontas - Small Works Exhibition
Artspace Art Trail, Galway Arts Festival, Galway
R.H.A Annual Summer Exhibition
EV+A exhibition of visual art
Limerick
Inishbofin Arts Festival
Co Galway
Meriden Group Show
Town Hall Theatre
Galway
2002:
Tulca Festival of Visual Art: Artspace II
Galway
Impressions National Print Exhibition
Galway Arts Centre
Galway
RDS Student Award Scheme and Tavelling Exhibition
ARTplus Degree and Diploma Graduate Show
2000:
Galway Printmakers Exhibition
1999:
Iontas, National Open Exhibiiton
COLLECTIONS
ESB
Siemens
Board of Government Works
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Galway City Council
Several Interested private Collectors
RESIDENCIES
2003:
Cyprus Summer School
AWARDS
Impression8/2002 Norman Ackroyd Etching Award
R.D.S. Student Award Scheme and Exhibition
Joint Winner of the Taylot Art Award
Winner of the Henry Higgins Travelling Scholarship
Winner of the Murray O Laoire Degree Award for Printmaking
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I am looking at the subtle mix of the staged and the everyday and the nature of the uncanny. I am also exploring the self in relation to the other, the innate distance between people and the development of the persona throughout childhood and adulthood. Childhood and leaving it is about the move from the imaginary to social spaces and learning how to perform in the latter. Children’s identities are far more flexible than those of adults. They are still finding themselves.
I aim to provoke viewers into questioning their individual standpoints Because children and adolescents are still becoming or being they are make powerful symbols to draw. Perhaps this is why people react emotionally to them in a way they would not react to adults.
