Trading Places/CR.E.A.T.E. Programme

About the Project : Artists

Yvonne Cullivan| Nicola Curry| Julie Forrester| Angela Ginn | Cliona Harmey| Ann Henderson| Sharon Kelly| Dave Kinane| Andrew Livingstone | Anna Reitberger | Anushiya Sundaralingam | Niall Walsh

Julie Forrester

Julie Forrester is a visual artist whose work has a sculptural base with a defining influence of tactile material and textile process. Work is often site specific and has a strongly performative content. Photography forms a core part of her work both as image/object and as record, both still and moving photographic media are used. Julie is a member of Backwater Artists Group and work can be viewed at http://www.iol.ie/~bag

Julie has extensive experience in both schools residency and community art projects, most recently Julie has been resident artist with Kids' Own in Multimedia Maps, work from which can currently be viewed at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), April- July 2003.

From the Artist's Portfolio

Mapping Dance, perfomance (two stills)

"Images show monuments from Mapping Dance (February 2001). This performance was made for Perforum (UCC Festival for Choreography and Drawing) and was the culminating action of a period of collaboration with dance artists Maggie Harvey and Cindy Cummings.
The performance:
Three bodies move within a space defined by an axis of paper on vertical and horizontal planes. They leave charcoal traces of their movements on floor and wall. The dancers are conscious of their physical bodies in space, the actually movement in time, the other is unconcerned with the actual representation of her body during the performance, all the while she focuses her action on the series of marks as they are left behind. The audience sees a series of gestures both live and 'recorded' unfolding within the architecture of charcoal marks, traces left by movements by all three in the space over time. " - Julie Forrester