Úna Quigley Bio.
Born in Dublin, Úna Quigley graduated from Crawford College of Art Cork and Winchester School of Art, Spain and U.K. in 2001 with an MA in European Fine Art. She has since exhibited widely such as at the Kassel Film Festival, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centrum Berlin, Glucksman Gallery Ireland, and Crawford Gallery Ireland.
In 2015 she co-created a temporary cinema in the wilderness of Connemara entitled Wild-screen/Scáil-Fhiáin. Recent group exhibitions since 2019 have included the Istanbul International Experimental film festival, a solo screening at The Guesthouse, Cork, and international group exhibitions such as Traverse Rencontres Video, Toulouse, France, VAFT, Turku, Finland, Rucklicht, Kino Central Berlin, and Tulca - Tactical Magic, curated by Kerry Guinan, Galway, Irl.
In 2020 she screened work in SSA/Cutlog international artist's moving image exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, This Moment: Women make films, a screening for international Women's day inc. Laure Prouvost and Basma Alsharif at Blackrock Library, Dublin. and Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
She exhibited in "1,2,3,4: Dance in contemporary artists' films" at the Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland in Dec 2020.
In 2020 she screened work in SSA/Cutlog international artist's moving image exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, This Moment: Women make films, a screening for international Women's day inc. Laure Prouvost and Basma Alsharif at Blackrock Library, Dublin. and Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
She exhibited in "1,2,3,4: Dance in contemporary artists' films" at the Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland in Dec 2020.
In March- April 2021 she exhibited in the foremost European biennale for film and video art, theVideonale at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. She took part in the Videonale panel discussion "We are all bodies of water" with Dr. Astrida Neimanis in March, and has since presented her work with the Videonale on Tour and Videonale Videonights in Romania and Munich. In June 2022 she screened her work alongside VALIE EXPORT at Filmreihe Koln.
She has been included in a number of publications dealing with feminism and film, such as “Cooling out - on the paradox of Feminism” by Glucksman Gallery/Kunsthaus Baselland, “False Optimism” published by Crawford Gallery Ireland and "All Mountains begin on the Ground,", an artists book of essays, and "Fluid States:Solid Matter" Videonale 2021 publication.
She has received awards from local authorities, Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Ealaín na Gaeltachta and was most recently awarded an Artists Bursary from Galway County Council in 2019, the Galway Co.Council Tyrone Guthrie residency award in 2020 and an Artists Bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2021.
Contact: uquigley@yahoo.com
Contact: uquigley@yahoo.com
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Gifted Water (preview link)
An experimental work based on a short story by the artist exploring identity and urban space, the film follows the directed performances of dancer Sheena McGrandles as she is permeated by different spaces and personas. McGrandles' work was concerned with ‘doing’ and queering the body, with an attempt to disturb it and the space it inhabits. The character is narrated by her imaginary male voice until she appears in drag at the end.
Performed by: Sheena McGrandles
Sound/Music: Loz FitzgibbonSupported by the Arts Council of Ireland