Awarded the RDS Taylor Art Award €10,000
Awarded the RDS Graphic Studio Dublin Emerging Visiting Artist Award €5,000 value
Sorcha is a graduate of TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, Sherkin Island. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that works across mediums such as film, performance and sculpture. Sorcha’s practice explores the relationships between performativity, iconography and data collection. Sparked through her own sense of ambiguity around cookie collection, she began thinking about this storing and collecting of data as a kind of performative trace left throughout the online world. The “trace” in this instance as something that is feeding mechanised systems of extraction that rely upon a vast amount of inequalities, hierarchies and misleading aphorisms.
Sorcha’s installation Eden. mirrors the fixed perspective of representational painting to allow each character’s performance to play out simultaneously. Rather than instructing the gaze of the viewer through the scene, each character captures attention through sound, gesture and physical expression – their “tastes,” each holding symbolic or cultural resonance that hold within them histories and presents of representation and power relations.
The 2024 RDS VAA judging panel commented on Sorcha’s practice saying;
“Her work operates on so many levels. It is original, accomplished and very culturally nuanced – there are so many references in her work which also performative, fun and other worldly. Sorcha is a great asset to the Irish art scene.
Image: Sorcha Browning, Eden, Image courtesy of the artist.
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