Mary Meskell, B.A

Irish Artist

LIMERICK, IRELAND

About Work

My work explores feelings of emotional isolation and detachment. It incorporates traces of the human spirit when a sense of belonging is gone. I am very much influenced by the mood and colours used by Gregory Crewdson, Photographer, in his "twilight" series and the chiaroscuro technique used by Caravaggio. There is an absence of the human figure in my work to evoke a sense of loss and the perceived invisibility of those who feel isolated or "out of place".

Education

As a young child my father fave me broken cameras to play with. Without ralizing it I had begun to analyse the world around me through the lens of a camera. As i clicked the shutters of those empty cameras a natural inclination developed for cropping what I see. At college I studied Printmaking and in the course of these studies I began taking photographs for ideas for silkscreen prints. These photographs became prints in themselves which dictated my continual use of the photographic medium in printmaking.

College

2007 Graduated, Limerick School of Art & Design, Limerick City, Ireland, B.A.(Hons.) Fine Art Printmaking.

Career

Since graduating from Art College I am working as a professional artist. I teach art part-time. My work has been in several selectd shows, invited shows, exhibitions, various art auctions and hangs in private collections in Ireland, England, America and Australia. I am currently exhibiting and working on a new body of work for a forthcoming solo show. I am a member of Limerick Printmakers.

Mary Meskell, B.A.