On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maud Cotter in 2021.

Maud Cotter’s recent solo exhibitions include a consequence of –, at The Irish Arts Center, New York, 2022; what was never ours to keep, at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida, 2022; a consequence of – a dappled world, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2021; a consequence of – a breather of air, at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2019; a consequence of – without stilling, at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2018; Matter of Fact, at domobaal gallery, London, 2016. Current and recent group exhibitions include: Contradictory Senses, at Lismore Castle Arts, 2022; The Twin, Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK, 2019; backyard sculpture, at domobaal gallery, London, 2019; 2116: Forecast of the next century, at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2016 touring to Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI, USA.

She lives and works in Cork, Ireland. Cotter has lectured in Art and Architectural Colleges in Europe and America. She is co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory and a member of Aosdana. Her practice is represented by domobaal gallery.

Artist’s statement “I like to think of the gallery as a mercurial landscape of the mind, a place where matter and consciousness mingle. The work seeks to assert the importance of this duo of forces, cerebrally presented and fully existing emotionally at the same time, connecting our bodies with our minds. I strive to use this kind of interactive intelligence as a totality of force, one that is necessary to intuit and explore changing spatiality and understandings. The work seeks to unsettle the conventional account of reality, the cul de sac spun by corporate values, so vividly and forcefully delivered to our minds through contemporary culture; to build an adaptive and sustainable relationship with the world we inhabit.

The work explores material reality as one of compliance and contradiction, one in which no rule applies. In this world of upheaval, lies an endless range of evolving possibilities which can become manifest visually through the enactment of will within the agency of matter.

Macrophysicality finds its point of incision; conscious and insightful, it enters the molecularly complex world of the object. These actions orchestrate new formation in that amorphous bank of matter behind appearance – consciousness modelling form. Interiority within an exterior condition.”__Maud Cotter.

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