Paula Bourke-Girgis
"I work quickly and impulsively-preferring to respond to specific environments which I fleetingly or repetitively inhabit.
The overbearing amount of imagery and text that I produce is hoarded into a type of 'cut-up' narrative in scrapbooks and poem books, becoming charged authenticity-batteries heavy with repetition of motifs and personalised catchphrases.
The bickering between shame and obnoxiousness in my work makes it uncomfortable to encounter. I am serious about the things that I say and am probably not in on the joke. My work is an extension of myself. It is definitely fun but also dark, serious and vulnerable. You may feel like you’ve seen and heard too much, I certainly do.
Whether it’s a drawing, poem, print or an installation of watery balls and tin-foil, what is constant is that it is an organised mess and an expression of my whims. Which hopefully leaves it open to yours."
Bourke-Girgis' Bio:
Since graduating with a first class honours degree from her MA Fine art at Chelsea in September 2013, Bourke-Girgis had been living and working in London. She has been involved in a number of projects here including The Clifford Chance Postgraduate Print Award, various poetry/performing arts events and collaboartive sculpture and video experiments with her international peers from Chelsea College of Art. She exhibited with Departure Foundation for their last show, Technopolis, at the headquarters in Gracechurch Street and is currently a member of Altmfa, the alternative fine art masters course. She now lives and works in Berlin, Baby! Deutchland, ja?
Education:
2013-current - AltMFA, Alternative London-based artist-led fine art course, UK
2013 - MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
2007-2011 - BA Fine Art (Sculpture and Combined Media), Limerick School of Art and Design, IE
2004-2006 - Fashion Design Diploma, Grafton Academy of Dress Design, IE
http://www.chelseasalonseries.com/paula-bourke-girgis.html
The overbearing amount of imagery and text that I produce is hoarded into a type of 'cut-up' narrative in scrapbooks and poem books, becoming charged authenticity-batteries heavy with repetition of motifs and personalised catchphrases.
The bickering between shame and obnoxiousness in my work makes it uncomfortable to encounter. I am serious about the things that I say and am probably not in on the joke. My work is an extension of myself. It is definitely fun but also dark, serious and vulnerable. You may feel like you’ve seen and heard too much, I certainly do.
Whether it’s a drawing, poem, print or an installation of watery balls and tin-foil, what is constant is that it is an organised mess and an expression of my whims. Which hopefully leaves it open to yours."
Bourke-Girgis' Bio:
Since graduating with a first class honours degree from her MA Fine art at Chelsea in September 2013, Bourke-Girgis had been living and working in London. She has been involved in a number of projects here including The Clifford Chance Postgraduate Print Award, various poetry/performing arts events and collaboartive sculpture and video experiments with her international peers from Chelsea College of Art. She exhibited with Departure Foundation for their last show, Technopolis, at the headquarters in Gracechurch Street and is currently a member of Altmfa, the alternative fine art masters course. She now lives and works in Berlin, Baby! Deutchland, ja?
Education:
2013-current - AltMFA, Alternative London-based artist-led fine art course, UK
2013 - MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
2007-2011 - BA Fine Art (Sculpture and Combined Media), Limerick School of Art and Design, IE
2004-2006 - Fashion Design Diploma, Grafton Academy of Dress Design, IE
http://www.chelseasalonseries.com/paula-bourke-girgis.html
