Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to announce Sonia Shiel as the recipient of the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York.
Sonia Shiel will spend three months in residence at ISCP in Brooklyn, New York. This residency awards an artist with a high-quality studio; a travel, accommodation, and living stipend; in addition to studio visits and off-site trips to museums, galleries and other cultural organisations. It supports an artist at a pivotal point in their practice with significant experience on a programme designed to build international links through a growing network of artists and curators who are ISCP alumni.
Sonia Shiel’s paintings take the shape of terrain, portal, pageant, puppet, and prop. In her exhibitions, ‘landscapes’ appear to possess a multi-dimensional capacity that stretches not only painting’s materiality, but also its temporal, liminal, and spatial qualities. In these otherworldly domains, humans, animals, plants and gods co-exist mechanically with phenomena – transposition, restoration, disembodiment, prediction and other metaphysical states. Influenced by art history, theatre, mythology and literary fiction, Shiel’s work explores our capacity for self-determination, and often creates dynamic opportunities for performance.
Selected exhibitions include VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (2023–24); Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow (2023); Void Gallery, Derry (2019); The Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2018); the Crawford Gallery, Cork (2017); The Cable Factory, Helsinki (2016); and The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2024, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015). Selected collaborative projects include Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow; The School of Drama, UCD, Dublin; The Art and Law Program at Fordham University in New York.
