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Jan is currently developing sculptural and photographic works that will eventually become large scale installations. She will use her time during a month-long residency in the Garden Studio at Butler Gallery to research and develop this work and broaden her research exploring the legacies of the labour of powerful, deeply creative, inspiring, but invisible women through fostering new relationships and connections in Kilkenny with local communities of interest and place. The residency will allow the time to conduct research into Kilkenny’s overlooked legacy of female woodworkers
About the Artist
Jan McCullough is an artist from Northern Ireland. Her work explores the human acts of construction, fabrication and DIY, and the communities of interest and place that form around them - employing the materials and languages associated with these activities to create sculptural installations, interventions and photographs.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024); NOUA, Bodø, Norway (2023); The Complex, Dublin (2023); PS², Belfast (2022); Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2022); Freelands Gallery, London (2021); The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry (2020); Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, South Korea (2019) and Filter Space, Chicago (2018).
She was Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Light Work in Syracuse, New York (2020-2021). McCullough has been recipient of the Making and Momentum [In Conversation with Eileen Gray] Artist Prize, Ireland (2022) and nominated for The Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize, Austria (2023); Platform at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); The Infinity Award at The International Centre of Photography, New York (2016) and The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize at The Photographers Gallery, London (2016).
