MTU Crawford College of Art & Design

Megan Eustace

Department: Fine Art Crawford College of Art & Design

Truth of the Present Moment, Conte on Paper, 140x100cm. Naked Truth Exhibition, Crawford Art Gallery, 2018. Photograper: Dara McGrath, 2018

Megan Eustace graduated from MTU CCAD,1996 with a first class BA HONS Fine Art Degree, was awarded ‘Student of the Year’ and completed a Masters Degree Fine Art and Design Education 2013, MTU CCAD. Her first solo show ‘How many are there of you?’ was in the Crawford Art Gallery Project Rooms (1997). Since then she has exhibited extensively and is represented by The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

Recent shows: 2018, ‘Naked Truth: The Nude by Irish Artists’ Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, including artist talk with Brian McGuire and life drawing sessions in the Cast room of CAG; 2018, ‘Outer Edges’ 2person show of new works at The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin; ‘The Space Between’ (2017/18) work was selected from OPW collection and toured N.Ireland and Republic of Ireland; 2017, ‘Elsewhere’ Backwater Artists Group collaborative project with CCAD students, curated by Helen Farrell, (Eustace also collaborated with her twin); 2018, ‘The Drawing Clinic’ On-going collaborative project with artist/ educator Cassandra Eustace (twin sister);2011 ‘Apertures and Anxieties’ RHA/Trinity School of Medicine 300^th anniversary –two year research project and exhibition; selected and invited RHA Annuals since 2002.

Her work is held in public and private collections –and included in many publications, Circa ’04, Irish Times ’04, ‘05, ’11; N. Fenton, ’Representing Art in Ireland’ 2008; O’Byrne R., ‘Dictionary of Living Irish Artists’ 2010; the European project: Imago Mundi, 2016, ‘An Image of Ireland’.

Residencies have included a fellowship at the Balinglen Arts Foundation, and invited artist to Cill Rialaig.

Eustace lectures drawing/life drawing on the BA Hons Fine Art and Contemporary Applied Art degree programmes at MTU CCAD.

Eustace was an active member of Backwater Artists Group Studios soon after it set up in Cork -the largest artist lead group studios in Ireland and has been a Director and Chair of the group since. She currently shares a studio with her twin sister at the Backwater.

Statement:

I draw to connect to the outside world and to dialogue with my inner one. Drawing can communicate an idea, question the visible, be a memory and as a medium to teach and learn it has a finite set of rules and infinite application. Drawing pedagogy and phenomenology are primary areas of my research; learning to draw methodologies spill into my studio practice as tools of enquiry. Our perceptual encounter of the world, seems ever more potent and curious as a de-materialisation of our lives into the digital increases. The materiality of the human experience can be expressed through drawing and drawing’s ontological nature allows us to perpetually encounter the ‘unkowness’ of that experience.

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