Ian A Mannion
Artist Statement
My work is primarily concerned with consumption/consummation in its various incarnations be it mental, political and/or carnal; incorporating the means by which such media (i.e. food, propaganda/news, sexual mores) is prepared, conveyed and digested. As befits this conception my influences are wide ranging and eclectic, often combining disparate sources and genres to create new mixed-media hybrids. Subsequently my recent methodology seeks to combine digital and traditional print-making techniques.
(Sometimes though I just draws for the sake of it and then try to make sense of it later. Y'know, juxtaposition between consciousness, unconsciousness and semi-controlled happenstance)
Biography
Ian received his education from Tipperary Institute, Clonmel (BSc in Multimedia and Communication Studies, 2007), St. John’s Central College, Cork (Multimedia, 2003) BA Hons in Multimedia, 2003) and studied fine art printmaking in Limerick School of Art and Design. In 2009 Ian joined Art Hive, a committee-based artists’ collective, to develop a group space for artists in South Tipperary and raise the profile of contemporary art-making in the region. Subsequently in 2019 he joined the Clonmel Arts
Studios Group, a public pilot initiative providing affordable studio space to artists, using vacant commercial premises.
Selected exhibitions
- Culture Night, Clonmel Arts Studios Group Show, Clonmel, 2019
- Carlow Arts Festival, 2017
- Galway Fringe Festival, 2016
- National Drawing Day, 2015
- Avenue Festival, Waterford, 2013
- Carlow Arts Festival, 2012
- Spiral Space, ArtHive Group Show, Clonmel, 2012
- Junction Solar Space Cafe, ArtHive Group Show, Clonmel, 2011
- Junction Fringe Festival Exhibition, Clonmel, 2010
- Cork Artists Collective Light Box Exhibition, 2008
- Draíocht Arts Centre, 2005
