Biografia
Irish artist Alannah Robins's artwork explores in between spaces, with a special focus on that space between mankind and nature. There are two main processes in her art practice, the gathering and the reductive. In the gathering she draws on familiar images, and plays with them. Her work is intuitive, and she places great importance on the process of making and engagement with the material. It is often during this process of engagement that previously unrelated images conjoin to suggest deeper, unconscious layers of meaning. The resulting objects or images trace an interior landscape, and with it recurring themes of identity, sexuality and a man's relationship with nature. Alannah is a graduate of the NCAD, Dublin. She was a founder member of the Atlantic Artists' Association which ran a collective studio and gallery space on the West coast of Ireland for nine years. Alannah has won several commissions and awards for her artwork in Ireland and Sweden, including a public commission for the Waterford Institute of Technology, Tyresö Kulturstipendium and Helge Axeson stipend. In recent years she has exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, London’s Dialogue Cultural Space and in Sweden, in Tegen2, Detroit Stockholm and Kiruna Stadshuset. Alannah is a member of Detroit Stockholm's Collective Studio, Tyresö Konstnärer, Visual Artists Ireland, Catalyst Arts Belfast, and Fylkingen.
