https://www.elainegraingerart.com/projects daily 1.0 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1504716265691-8KGUF16TW472SFZ63LCR/ElaineContrast-4092.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1515416547923-HFUNZEOAOMOX13GIIQMG/2017-12-14+12.19.19.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1504715687292-SM7JWZLR1NO3QMX1R385/2017-03-30+14.13.11.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1652107281862-VP1OBZH2FFO3SPS2NK29/moag_20220313_3234.jpg Projects During a period of five days the artists Elaine Grainger and Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard worked with the gallery space at Körpasstradir in Reykjavik. The space which was an old working barn, became the starting point of the work undone. For each day to begin with a sculptural intervention of the architectural features. For each day to choose a different path to follow. A project whose core is situated around temporality and how to collectively map and understand it within a space. The artists worked organically alongside each other. Starting off with rearranging and observing the change of work from previous days. Keeping a sense of playfulness yet a sincere approach to the installation, crucially being sensitive to the space not imposing themselves on it. Creating works that correspond with both the space and the artist's own sculptural voice. Using materials that are familiar to the surrounding area, also including selected materials, brought in to interact with the set environment. The outcome was a temporary installation where gentle gestures suggest that someone has been there, mapping and reflecting upon its existence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1606133004868-72APIPLS4WWFFNW5X2H3/IMG_0979.JPG Projects Not yet, no PADA Residency group exhibition in PADA Gallery 2020. A video piece Things that blew in and two photographic works from my time in the residency were presented. The video a single channel with stereo sound, duration 4mins 6 sec. Created in an abandoned building close to the residency site. In a quiet corner I filmed the movement of paper bags, traces of something, someone having been there before me. The documentation in both the video and photographs alludes to the absence of the body but questions it at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1606562939150-92W57OUJPTC6QO8CODPG/Elaine+Grainger+worthless+remains%2C+Barreiro%2CPortugal+2020.jpg Projects Things that blew in was made over a period of one month. Each day I set off on my bicycle moving through the industrialised zone of Barreiro. Portugal. Scenes of abandoned scorched land, industrial waste piled, buildings that were collapsing. These scenes from another time became my playground. I gathered materials understanding the time held within them. Brought them to my studio and began arranging them altering them and placing them together with made objects. After being exhibited I returned them in their new form, back to the site in the Zona Industrial to once again take on another life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1581433611403-VO9VA82ASPQ64TI2AXTL/Grainger_E_Complex-17.jpg Projects The site of exhibition at The Complex, is reconfigured from a large fruit warehouse and, with a minimal amount of change. Through this it retains a balance, absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness with the innumerable scratches and marks on its surface but also through the sense of possibility inherent in allowing it to become a space for a new purpose; a site for art. It is this state of transition that theoretically links the my practice to the site These assembled objects slowly evolve out of a working method that begins with the collection and selection of materials. A combination of ready-made materials and appropriated objects are transformed through a process of making and placing, arranging and rearranging. I create an environment of tension between what may seem fixed with what is temporary. Assemblages are caught in the moment of being and not being, of becoming and collapsing. Questioning the value in the friction between attraction to change and the aversion to it, permits the work to appear partially assembled and also to remain unresolved. The exhibition is accompanied by a commissioned text by Ingrid Lyons and is supported by Fingal County Council and Fire Station Artists Studios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1643976243475-C5CVUOIYW51C9QKND9EZ/_MCD8031.jpg Projects When time felt out of rhythm, like it was spiraling out of control, plans halted and travels abandoned. Life no longer seemed embedded in any ordering structures or coordinates that would find duration. I looked to what I knew were constants. The eternal rising and setting of the sun. The cyclical phases of the moon and the movements of the tides. Recognising if I abandoned my timetable and returned to that of natures, I could then begin to navigate new journeys. This performance took place between low tide and sunset. Building 9 monument plinths that gave a nod to those that held great Greek statues. As each sand plinth was built I walked up the beach to a blanket and drew coordinates of the tidal shift. On each blanket was a transistor radio with a pre recorded voiced tidal charting. As each of the 9 radios were turned on there became a soundscape of chanting. Until it reach the moment when the tide collapsed the sand plinths and the sunset. Supported by Fingal County Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1623924711666-LWNCKHR7A55KXZKA7IA8/elainegrainger_lowres-12.jpg Projects The Limits of my Language Curated by Rachel Botha brought three artists with very different practices together, Chloe Brennan, Elaine Grainger and Johanna Nulty. Presented through a window in Covid, My work remained in the space for an extended period. In its essence my practice is about recording and revealing what is unseen and unheard. Threads sewn together are born from small observations; things left untouched, the residue of an event and fragments of recollection losing its detail. The work on site in the gallery space was created in direct response to an engagement with a local limestone quarry. Uncovering memory through the rupture in the landscape and recording its active transformation. The works presented in the gallery space have themselves been through transformation, porcelain ground to dust, crab apples fallen and cast forms an altered time frame of transformation. Each assembled piece has the potential to collapse, deflate and disintegrate but never to disappear. This exhibition was accompanied by a commissioned text by Michaela Nash and was supported by Kilkenny County Council, Fingal County Council and The Arts Council of Ireland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1741622751184-LF7OL3818I1JQ5D780FR/body+cabin.jpg Projects A collaboration between body and place through a series of interchangeable movements gathered through encounters at Lake Saiko, Japan 2024. A site–specific installation of objects and materials gathered and presented in architect Kengo Kuma’s designed viewing cabin at Lake Saiko, Japan. Organic materials supported and cushioned by manmade fabrics. Arrangements reflecting those of the tea ceremony, the exterior natural world infiltrating the interior space through movements and actions of my body. This project was supported by Fingal County Council whilst on Residency at SaikoNeon, Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1706710376211-7YAIAH1IZ1PTQZWQ5XL7/IMAGE+4.jpg Projects The installation You observe, I observed is the second collaboration between artist Elaine Grainger and Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard. The artists were invited to Juxtapose Independent Art Fair in Aarhus to create work with a similar process and output as the exhibition Undone. During three days before the fair opened the artist worked with the outdoor surroundings collecting and creating works that were then placed to interact with wooden modules that the fair provided. Presented were found objects, sculptures made by the artist and organic matter found outside the installation. This became a choreographed dialog between the outside and inside, between the movement of the visitors and the light that shifted the perception of the space. At 12 am every day during the fair the artists rearrange the installation making small shifts as a way to not fix the work, keeping it open ended. This presentation at Juxtapose ArtFair Aarhus, Denmark was supported by Fingal County Council and Culture Ireland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1579190728752-OTVFA2Q5LFUMPYSEKIIX/Elaine+Grainger+Possibilities+of+Place%2C+182cm+x+90cm+33cm+x22cm+poster%2Cpins%2C+copybook+and+paper+2019.JPG Projects The Possibilities of Place was an interaction between myself and writer/ curator Julia Moustacchi that builds on a three-month living performance over the summer 2019. Across countries, myself, Irish in residence at The Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, and Julia, French living in Dublin, communicated through letters, telling each other places of ritual or shift in their lives to go explore. While visiting those locations that have a particular meaning for the other, both of them experienced it with the filter of otherness from being, no matter how familiar we can get to a culture, somehow foreign to this other country, city and places. Reflecting on the ‘in between’ space, this place of transition that opens up when being in contact of a foreign culture, we created a collaborative performance that focuses on the problematic of transition in time and space. I created a visual library through photographing scenes in Paris and pasting them to the studio wall building up a catalogue of new memories prompted by the vibrant layering of posters throughout the city of Paris. Julia created a spoken word piece working in time with my tearing down of the images gathered, leaving traces of the experience. These performances took place at The Centre Cultural Irlandais Paris and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1572859790613-0H69EDO01SL5JIF5YE8B/IMG_0437.jpg Projects Burning the bush was a week-long think tank with events, discussions, gatherings, presentations, music and art by artists writers musics and activists. This was organised and hosted by The Centre Cultural Irlandais. I took part as artist in residence and presented a temporary outdoor work that reflected on the importance that a space like the centre holds in the city of Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1543231788586-YJWVBI4ZV1OCL1HNY2RP/ElaineGRDS-3757.jpg Projects The RDS Visual Art Awards is an important platform for graduate artists throughout the country of Ireland. It is highly competitive, 13 art graduates are selected on their final year exhibition then to be re-exhibited at a venue (RDS Library hall 2018). The selected artist then go on to compete for a series of awards. I received the Mason Hayes and Curran / Centre Cultural Irlandais Residency Award 2018. The 2018 exhibition was curated by Irish artist Amanda Coogan The body of work was my MFA presentation barely hardly there. The work was reconfigured to work in the windowless space of the old Library Hall at the RDS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1528827682277-IPD3DKHQ4A94PXH8W6VW/17.jpg Projects barely hardly there - is a site-specific installation. Each work assembled with the intention to interrelate with the other, connected through the positioning of the viewer. Through use of scale and materials, I create an environment of tension between what may seem fixed with what is temporary. Assemblages are caught in the moment of being and not being, of becoming and collapsing. These assembled objects slowly evolve out of a working method that begins with the collection and selection of materials. A combination of ready-made materials and appropriated objects transformed through a process of making and placing arranging and rearranging. It is this daily studio performance that creates the constant shifting in the work, giving it a sense of vagueness and incompleteness. This is carried on into the space of exhibition where a performative intervention allows for new possibilities through a process of continuous rearrangement. The work hovers and seems to never remain fixed.Questioning the value in the friction between attraction to change and the aversion to it, permits, the work to appear partially assembled and also to remain unresolved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1706790552783-5FXDP9Z878QOLN8L323R/EGrainger_HOLDING_Install1_300DPI-5.jpg Projects HOLDING ON lightly was an active presentation of work that is continuously shifting throughout the period of the exhibition. Materials and objects are moved from the artist’s studio situated nearby on Talbot Street and rearranged on site through instinctive movements forming new arrangements. The evolving presentation of carefully chosen materials and objects, alongside those that are handmade, carries a set of questions in relation to the hierarchy between objects/materials and the space they occupy. The audience's interaction with the work is dictated by what is presented in that moment and also by allowing time and light to curate what is visible. I use mundane materials like plastic sheeting, paper, fabric, as well as everyday domestic objects, such as ornaments, carpet and curtains, interwoven with clay, wax, plants and other organic materials. As the cube is transformed with objects forming, accumulating and disappearing, new conversations in turn form and dissipate; leaving the space filled with traces of the experiences that existed. This is a presentation of work always in process never finished always transforming. The Exhibition was accompanied by a commissioned text by Artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhin The Pink Palace and was supported by The Arts Council of Ireland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1745766872895-TD73DBORRZTPZVDI457Q/Pink_2025-10.jpg Projects The Echo Mapping exhibition is an exploration of both process and outcome between Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard and myself. Through a shared interest in movement, architecture, and the ephemeral, engaging in a critical dialogue between our practices, with the gallery space itself serving as an active site of interaction. The works in this exhibition reflect ongoing conversations about time, memory, and the relationship between the human body and the land. This collaboration has evolved from a micro-residency at PINK in October 2024, where we conducted a site-specific exploration of Stockport through walking and mapping coordinates. The project, anchored in research and sensory engagement with the local environment, delves into the intersection between lived experience and physical space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1767103132319-KMRV1N5LNM54M2RHQW5F/2T7A4359+copy.jpg Projects Moving Through Things, an exhibition and performance tracing sequences of movement across three interwoven sites: Slievenamon Mountain, the STAC Gallery, and theSTAC Chapel. Drawing on the mountain’s historic cursus—a pathway once used for procession and ritual—the work explores how motion accumulates meaning, absorbs time, and dissolves boundaries between self, place, and ritual. It considers movement not as transit, but as a sustained form of attention. The mountain forms the origin point of the project, a site of exploration and encounter where walking becomes a way of listening, absorbing, and exchanging with the land. The body’s repetitive gestures gather a rhythm that holds both time and transformation. In the gallery, this rhythm is translated into a sculptural and sensory environment. Circular forms and transparent materials create a spatial choreography that shifts gently with light and presence. Sound, scent, and subtle movement invite the viewer into a state of quiet attunement, where perception unfolds slowly. The circle acts as both structure and cycle—a returning motion that mirrors walking, breath, and the passage of time. The installation is not fixed but open, allowing the works to evolve within the space and through the viewer’s movement and time. Moving Through Things weaves walking, repetition, and transformation into a continuous motion that connects landscape, gallery, and body. It is an invitation to slow down, to move with awareness, and to offer presence as an act of exchange between self and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/1767370783241-PS5F8BOGX4YCHSAV9JU7/ElaineGrainger_MC_8353_CopyrightAislingMcCoy_WEB.jpg Projects Moving Through Things, an exhibition and performance tracing sequences of movement across three interwoven sites: Slievenamon Mountain, theSTAC Gallery, and the STAC Chapel. Drawing on the mountain’s historic cursus—a pathway once used for procession and ritual—the work explores how motion accumulates meaning, absorbs time, and dissolves boundaries between self, place, and ritual. It considers movement not as transit, but as a sustained form of attention. The mountain forms the origin point of the project, a site of exploration and encounter where walking becomes a way of listening, absorbing, and exchanging with the land. The body’s repetitive gestures gather a rhythm that holds both time and transformation. In the gallery, this rhythm is translated into a sculptural and sensory environment. Circular forms and transparent materials create a spatial choreography that shifts gently with light and presence. The chapel extends this experience into activation. Here, the artist leads the audience through a silent performance guided by a series of non-verbal instructions. Movements of lifting, holding, and releasing—become a shared rhythm of care and offering. Through gesture, breath, and stillness, the audience and artist together activate the space, creating a collective moment of attention and reciprocity. Moving Through Things weaves walking, repetition, and transformation into a continuous motion that connects landscape, gallery, and body. It is an invitation to slow down, to move with awareness, and to offer presence as an act of exchange between self and place. https://www.elainegraingerart.com/essays-reviews daily 0.75 2026-01-02 https://www.elainegraingerart.com/essays-reviews/2026/1/2/-what-can-i-give-you-a-text-by-julie-landers-in-response-to-moving-through-things-at-stac-gallery-tipperary-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b0208c9f8dced99c4f6c7c/08e0dabc-ff88-4445-b2db-17bbc5ca8164/ElaineGrainger_MC_8390_CopyrightAislingMcCoy_WEB.jpg Text - what can I give you ? a text by Julie Landers in response to Moving Through Things at STAC Gallery Tipperary 2025 - Make it stand out Installation image of video The Hike, colour video stereo sound 8 minutes 40 seconds, 2025 on Japanese paper. 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