SECOND NATURE
LIESELLE MCMAHON
Second Nature
A return to the awareness of breath, body rhythms, the turn and return of the seasons, the movement of the planets is what is experienced when we touch soil (earth). Past, present and future coexist in the form of elements from stars, the bones of our ancestors and the future life and growth potential contained within it.
Second Nature invites you to feel the soil in your hands or take off your shoes and socks and to put your feet in the soil and contemplate together:
When was the last time you felt soil between against your skin or between your toes? Or picked up a handful and let it run through your fingers? How does it feel? Have you ever planted a seed and watched it grow? When was the last time you took a walk in a green leafy area with the time to enjoy it (not rushing to go somewhere else)? Have you ever tried Forest Bathing? What does it mean to you to put your hand or and footprints in the soil?
Lieselle invites you to join her for a conversation on Sunday 21st at from 5pm. You will be invited to sit with her in the earth and discuss the questions above.
LIESELLE
McMAHON
Lieselle McMahon is a visual artist living in Dublin. Following working as a Conservation Geneticist in the Azores, she studied Music & Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin and Art & Design at CEAD at NCAD. Her practice is sculptural, encompassing 2D, 3D installation, live art and sound sculpture. Drawing on the assertion that the personal is political, conceptual themes around feminism and anti-capitalism manifest in her work and she has been a member of A4 Sounds Art Studios since 2017.
Lieselle’s practice is centred around the “drawing down” of the intangible into a tangible form that the body innately recognises and understands, achieved through sculpture, sound, performance art in a process of naming visually and viscerally that which cannot be named. She has showed work in group and solo exhibitions at DeAppendix Gallery, NCAD, Filmbase and A4 Sounds Gallery, as well as live art performances in The Complex Dublin, Mart Gallery Rathmines, the Grand Social, Donnybrook Youth Club beside the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry, at NES in Skagastrond, Iceland, and online with the Post Collective in 2021 at Kunsthal Gent Gallery, Belgium. Her recent and current practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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liesellemcm@gmail.com