I work across sculpture, painting, collage and installation. My practice is rooted in craft and abstraction. Using a variety of mediums; paper, colour, material and stitch to create 2D and 3D structures investigating and pushing the traditions of abstraction and craft. Extracting colour, pattern and shape from the world around me. I am perpetually drawn to the ephemeral beauty of the minutiae we visually absorb on a daily basis. I am eternally fascinated by the endless possibilities of fleeting shadows.

In the studio I construct surfaces that create energetic connections through stitching, cutting and marking making until I arrive at forms that intrigue me. My soft sculptures explore the interplay between structure and movement The biomorphic pieces sewn and manipulated into impermanent shapes often evoking body parts, shape shifting and morphing, constantly impacted by their environment. I explore the language of painting in a sculptural form, working with these stitched sculptures as surfaces to paint on and as ‘false’ fabric constructions; installation pieces.

Aileen McGee

Education:

2016: BA Hons Fine Arts – Kensington and Chelsea College & London Southbank University
2022/23: Turps Banana CC

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 The Art of Staring at Walls – Kildare Town Library
2023 Transistor Dreams – No8 Gallery, Kildare
2018 Elemental – Palm Tree Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024

Lines of the Land Exhibition – curator Eamon Colman, An Chead Tine Art Gallery, Kilkenny
Interdependent – curator Cian McLoughlin, ARTNETDLR Group Show – Walters, Dun Laoghaire
Curator – Whispers of Resilience – Rosemary Noonan (part of the First Fortnight Festival 2024)
Curator – No.8 Gallery, Kildare

2023

Curator – Where Shadows Speak – Lauren Hamilton – No.8 Gallery, Kildare

2021

Past the crossroads on the right, Hammersmith, London

2020

Elevate O2 – The Shard, London

2018

Glorious Objects – London Edition
Kindred Studios Group Show – Upper Gallery, London

2017

‘Appearance of……’, A & D Gallery, Marylebone, London
44 ARTWORKS @ 44 Hallam Street, London
Somewhere in Between (curated by me), The Exhibitionist Hotel, London
Every Drop Counts, Group show, London
WITP – Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh
WITP – Greek Street Gallery, London
WITP – Summer show, Clerkenwell Gallery, London
KCC BA Show, BA Studios, KCC Hortensia Road, London

2016

Cryptic X – Group show, Crypt Gallery, London

2015

What is the Point? – Group show, Mall Galleries, London

2014

Larvatus Prodeo – Hortensia Gallery, London
Maelstrom – Group show, Hortensia Gallery, London

Awards

2024 Kildare County Council/Creative Ireland – Commemorations Programme

Collections

Private Collection France, Ireland, UK and USA