Aideen Barry is a contemporary visual artist from

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Early life and education

Barry was born in Cork in 1979. She studied at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and

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Work

Barry works in video, animation, sound, installation, drawing, and performance and often deals with issues of domestic labour.

Career

Barry had an artist residency at the

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in 2008, "during which she shot a film in zero gravity". Barry's series of polished aluminum sculptures, ''Weapons of Mass Consumption'', was selected by critic Cristín Leach for

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's '21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks'. On December 21, 2021, she broadcast a collaborative sound piece on Irish national television network RTÉ, titled ''Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ''. This was part of a solo exhibition of her work at the Limerick Gallery of Art and commissioned by the

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. Barry released a black and white, stop motion film about the history of Kaunus,

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and its architecture, titled ''Klostes''. It debuted as part of the Kaunas 2022 The European Capital of Culture. She designed a postage stamp for

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in 2022. Barry teaches at

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. She is a member of

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since 2019 and in 2020 she was elected to the

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as an ARHA. Her work is in the

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and the Arts Council of Ireland collections.

Bibliography

* Barry, Aideen, et al. ''Strange terrain''. Dublin: Oonagh Young Gallery, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9549844-2-7 * Fitzpatrick, Mike, and Susan Holland. ''Noughties but nice : 21st century Irish art''. Limerick: Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9553668-9-5 * Long, Declan, and Gavin Murphy. ''House projects''. Dublin: House Projects + Atelier Projects, 2007. ISBN 9780992964108

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