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amyjconnelly

Who Am I?

amy is a multidisciplinary artist from cork. Her practice stretching
in the exploration of presence, time, and the everyday. Through sculpture,
text, and installation. She is drawn to the fleeting traces of ordinary life — a receipt, a fragment of a conversation, an object left behind — and uses these as material starting points. Through photography, painting, and the written word, she documents small, personal moments that echo wider ideas of feeling out of place, living between the city and the coastline. Her practice seeks to make visible the quiet connections between people, objects, and place.
‘A true lover of colour theory, and always inspired the sea, i have been repersenting my friends as warm red in an uncertin 'blue' time in my life. mirroring the bouys dotted around the coast. With my work often mirroring the rhythm of the sea as both a metaphor and a material influence.’

Festival Work

studio work

Props For Music Videos

festival and public art

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Proof of Purchase:

poof of purchace is a 3 piece instilation created by amy. to show everyday life and its documentation. shown through your most collected paper. reciepts. a physical responce to her first book of the same name.

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Travel is necessary

This instalation consists of 3 stone tablets at different heights to show the rising and falling of waves. Each deccorated with poetry about swimming one poem based on sight, one on sound and the last on touch.

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Frozen water :

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Beneath The Waves We Float:

looking at feeling dispalced living between th city and the sea. amy uses the fabric to repersent the river lee that flows to her home town beach.and how the bouys repersent her friends and how they remain a constant giding her through life in the city.

I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had.

Florine Bos

traveling has alwas inspired my work colour concept and working with others. It also alows me to work on unusualy placed murals like this one on a childens farm in boliva

Paintings

As a way to create flow through my practice i often create these lare multi media paintings. The paintings are inspired by the feeling of beeing benethe the water in the river or sea, and the peace i feel in these spaces. Each painting is inspired by different times of the year lending different colour pallet to each.

The Important People in my life:

Looking at the colour red and how it is spotted around the coast as a Constant, in an ever changing Blue. I noticeed that my friends iluminated by the street lights gave a red glow. They were the constant in my life. This also lended itself to colour theory with red being the coulour of love passion and happines, and blue a coulouroften associated with personal behavior and a feeling of being lost.