{"id":632,"date":"2009-03-02T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawrencebrown.eu\/LOCWS\/?p=632&#038;language=en"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:27:06","slug":"aisling-obeirn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Aisling O\u2019Beirn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aisling O\u2019Beirn was born in Galway, Ireland and is now based in Belfast<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obeirn1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"obeirn1\" title=\"obeirn1\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-633\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Her current work is concerned with exploring spatial politics encompassing subjects as diverse as the technologies behind space exploration to the very localised practice of nicknaming places and landmarks. Research takes the form of a constantly expanding collection of vernacular information ranging from urban myths, anecdotes, place nicknames and hand drawn maps gathered from various locations<br \/>\n<br \/>The interest in these unofficial accounts stems from a concern regarding the politics of how place is described at a local level. Recent installations and site specific projects marks an attempt to bring together some of this seemingly disparate information in a non-linear fashion through sculpture, installation, animation and site specific means<br \/>\n<br \/>O\u2019Beirn studied sculpture at The University of Ulster in 1990 and has been exhibiting since. She was awarded a PhD by the University of Ulster in 2005. O\u2019 Beirn has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is an Associate Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Ulster. O\u2019 Beirn is represented by The Third Space Gallery, Belfast. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethirdspacegallery.com\/\">www.thethirdspacegallery.com<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obeirn2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"obeirn2\" title=\"obeirn2\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-634\" \/><br \/>\nRecent Exhibitions include 2007: Dark Matter, Belfast (solo) 2006; And Other Storeys\u2019 Derry, (solo); Some Things About Belfast (Or So I\u2019m Told), Space Shuttle Mission 3, Belfast (solo project); A Small Urban Inventory, Belfast, (solo). Group shows include 2008: Maquettes En Modekllen, Paper Biennale, Stedejilk Museum, Aalst, Belgium, Campouflash, Dresden and Poznan; 2007, Campouflash, Lodz, Le Syndrome De Broadway\u2019 France, Protokol Sc, Centrifugal, Sekvenca II, Zagreb, \u2019Tides\u2019, Pittsburgh, USA, Resolutions. Washington DC, USA, 2006; Dogs Have No Religion, Prague, \u2018Recontre Internationales, Paris, Berlin, 2005; \u2018The Nature of Things: A Long Weekend\u2019. Venice Biennale, (as part of N. Ireland at 51st Venice Biennale), No Topless Bathing: Belfast Has Suffered Enough\u2019 Valencia, Spain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aislingobeirn.com\/\">www.aislingobeirn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aisling O\u2019Beirn was born in Galway, Ireland and is now based in Belfast Her current work is concerned with exploring spatial politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15,56],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aisling-obeirn","tag-locws-international-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}