About
Lieselle McMahon is a visual artist living in Dublin, where she studied Music & Media Technologies at TCD and Art&Design at CEAD at NCAD. Her practice is mainly sculptural, encompassing 2D, 3D installation, live art and sound sculpture. Drawing on the assertion that the personal is political, conceptual themes around feminism and anti-capitalism manifest themselves in her work and she has been a member of A4 Sounds Art Studios since 2017, where she bases her practice from.
Her creative life is a tale of two halves. She started in music, playing in bands in venues across Dublin city before being slowly lead into visual art through the exploration of experimental sound installation and performance art. She has exhibited in DeAppendix Gallery, NCAD, Filmbase and A4 Sounds Gallery, as well as live art performances in The Complex Dublin, Mart Gallery Rathmines, the Grand Social and Donnybrook Youth Club beside the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry.
She draws on both art and music sensibilities in her art practice.
"It's the quirky move that PJ Harvey never made... it's damn exciting... off-kilter feel... it's dark, enigmatic and thoroughly refreshing" – HOTPRESS
Her creative life is a tale of two halves. She started in music, playing in bands in venues across Dublin city before being slowly lead into visual art through the exploration of experimental sound installation and performance art. She has exhibited in DeAppendix Gallery, NCAD, Filmbase and A4 Sounds Gallery, as well as live art performances in The Complex Dublin, Mart Gallery Rathmines, the Grand Social and Donnybrook Youth Club beside the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry.
She draws on both art and music sensibilities in her art practice.
"It's the quirky move that PJ Harvey never made... it's damn exciting... off-kilter feel... it's dark, enigmatic and thoroughly refreshing" – HOTPRESS
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My WorkThe focal point of Lieselle's art practice is the body.
A member of A4 Sounds Art Studios - a collective of creatives who believe that art and music can contribute to social change for the better - she spent the past few years working on projects borne to highlight the issues surrounding the Repeal Movement: Lament for Article 40.3.3, 2014 (sound art installation), Blood & Bone, 2016 (sound art & music project), Liminal Voice, 2016 (performance art), At the other end of the street, 2016 (video installation), Make Some Noise, 2017 (audiovisual installation), Autonomy?, 2018 (performance art), amongst other social issues. Currently she is exploring boundaries, bodily shame and how we relate intimately to “the other”. Recent work includes Purge (magazine images, plastic), Poison (magazine images, flour, water), and Starve (dough, food wrap), collage and sculptural pieces reflecting on bodily shame associated with eating and the low level anxiety incurred by counting calories and constant mental comparisons to internalised images of “the body perfect” projected by the media. Her most recent work is sculptural installation, Unprotected (latex, tension springs), suspended in the vulnerable, boundary-less, violable space where trust, consent, joy and fear coexist and interact in human intimacy. |
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