Elaine Grainger Art

  • Projects
    • Echo Mapping with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard PINK UK, 2025
    • Kengo Kuma's Cabin, Saiko, Japan 2024
    • HOLDING ON Lightly, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 2023
    • You observe, I observed with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Juxtapose, Denmark 2023
    • undone with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Körpasstradir Gallery, Reykjavik 2022
    • Visible Island between low tide and sunset, Howth, Dublin 2021
    • The limits of my language Kilkenny Arts Office Gallery 2021
    • things that blew in PADA Studios, Portugal 2020
    • Not yet, no PADA Studios & Gallery , Portugal 2020
    • The gap between noise, The Complex, Dublin, 2019
    • The Possibilities of Place Paris / Dublin Performance with Julia Moustacchi 2019
    • Burning the Bush ‘Cultural think tank,’ Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
    • RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition 2018
    • barely hardly there MFA exhibition 2018
    • MFA Interim Exhibition Eblana Hse 2017
    • Time is not a line Pallas Projects 2017
    • Detached MFA Group Exhibition Solstice Arts Centre 2017
  • Biography / Contact
  • Text
  • Cv
    • Echo Mapping with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard PINK UK, 2025
    • Kengo Kuma's Cabin, Saiko, Japan 2024
    • HOLDING ON Lightly, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 2023
    • You observe, I observed with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Juxtapose, Denmark 2023
    • undone with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Körpasstradir Gallery, Reykjavik 2022
    • Visible Island between low tide and sunset, Howth, Dublin 2021
    • The limits of my language Kilkenny Arts Office Gallery 2021
    • things that blew in PADA Studios, Portugal 2020
    • Not yet, no PADA Studios & Gallery , Portugal 2020
    • The gap between noise, The Complex, Dublin, 2019
    • The Possibilities of Place Paris / Dublin Performance with Julia Moustacchi 2019
    • Burning the Bush ‘Cultural think tank,’ Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
    • RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition 2018
    • barely hardly there MFA exhibition 2018
    • MFA Interim Exhibition Eblana Hse 2017
    • Time is not a line Pallas Projects 2017
    • Detached MFA Group Exhibition Solstice Arts Centre 2017
  • Biography / Contact
  • Text
  • Cv
 The  Echo Mapping  exhibition is an exploration of both process and outcome between Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard and myself. Through a shared interest in movement, architecture, and the ephemeral, engaging in a critical dialogue between our practices,
       
     
Projects / Echo Mapping with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard PINK UK, 2025
       
     
Projects /  Kengo Kuma's Cabin, Saiko, Japan 2024
 HOLDING ON  lightly  was an active presentation of work that is continuously shifting throughout the period of the exhibition. Materials and objects are moved from the artist’s studio situated nearby on Talbot Street and rearranged on site thro
       
     
Projects / HOLDING ON Lightly, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 2023
 The installation You observe, I observed is the second collaboration between artist Elaine Grainger and Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard. The artists were invited to Juxtapose Independent Art Fair in Aarhus to create work with a similar process and output
       
     
Projects / You observe, I observed with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Juxtapose, Denmark 2023
 During a period of five days the artists Elaine Grainger and Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard worked with the gallery space at Körpasstradir in Reykjavik. The space which was an old working barn, became the starting point of the work undone.   For each da
       
     
Projects / undone with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Körpasstradir Gallery, Reykjavik 2022
 When time felt out of rhythm, like it was spiraling out of control, plans halted and travels abandoned. Life no longer seemed embedded in any ordering structures or coordinates that would find duration. I looked to what I knew were constants. The et
       
     
Projects / Visible Island between low tide and sunset, Howth, Dublin 2021
 The Limits of my Language Curated by Rachel Botha brought three artists with very different practices together, Chloe Brennan, Elaine Grainger and Johanna Nulty. Presented through a window in Covid, My work remained in the space for an extended peri
       
     
Projects / The limits of my language Kilkenny Arts Office Gallery 2021
  Things that blew in  was made over a period of one month. Each day I set off on my bicycle moving through the industrialised zone of Barreiro. Portugal. Scenes of abandoned scorched land, industrial waste piled, buildings that were collapsing. Thes
       
     
Projects / things that blew in PADA Studios, Portugal 2020
 Not yet, no PADA Residency group exhibition in PADA Gallery 2020.   A video piece  Things that blew in  and two photographic works from my time in the residency were presented. The video a single channel with stereo sound, duration 4mins 6 sec. Crea
       
     
Projects / Not yet, no PADA Studios & Gallery , Portugal 2020
   The site of exhibition at The Complex, is reconfigured from a large fruit warehouse and, with a minimal amount of change. Through this it retains a balance, absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness with the innumerable
       
     
Projects / The gap between noise, The Complex, Dublin, 2019
 The Possibilities of Place was an interaction between myself and writer/ curator Julia Moustacchi that builds on a three-month living performance over the summer 2019. Across countries, myself, Irish in residence at The Centre Cultural Irlandais, Pa
       
     
Projects / The Possibilities of Place Paris / Dublin Performance with Julia Moustacchi 2019
  Burning the bush  was a week-long think tank with events, discussions, gatherings, presentations, music and art by artists writers musics and activists. This was organised and hosted by The Centre Cultural Irlandais.  I took part as artist in resid
       
     
Projects / Burning the Bush ‘Cultural think tank,’ Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
 The RDS Visual Art Awards is an important platform for graduate artists throughout the country of Ireland. It is highly competitive, 13 art graduates are selected on their final year exhibition then to be re-exhibited at a venue (RDS Library hall 20
       
     
Projects / RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition 2018
  barely hardly there  - is a site-specific installation. Each work assembled with the intention to interrelate with the other, connected through the positioning of the viewer. Through use of scale and materials, I create an environment of tension be
       
     
Projects / barely hardly there MFA exhibition 2018
       
     
Projects / MFA Interim Exhibition Eblana Hse 2017
       
     
Projects / Time is not a line Pallas Projects 2017
       
     
Projects / Detached MFA Group Exhibition Solstice Arts Centre 2017