Waystation is the forthcoming graduate exhibition of the MA Fine Art at TU Dublin, 2024 at The Complex Gallery. The five artists have worked collaboratively as a group and in conjunction with Complex curator Mark O'Gorman, to create Waystation as a site of cross contamination and colliding worlds beyond the usual conventions of a degree show.
With just over a week to go until the exhibition opens, we're introducing Aideen Farrell and Claire O'Hagan, two of the artists whose work will be featured in Waystation. The exhibition runs 26th October - 2nd November with a preview on 25th October, 6-8 pm.
Aideen Farrell
Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based artist. She works with found materials, clay, drawing, and photography. She gathers materials and detritus while following routes of canals and disused railways.  She focuses on these site's relations to ideas of ruin, extraction, transformation, and decay processes.Â
Aideen graduated with her BA from NCAD in 2017. Recent exhibitions include solo shows; Brittle to Look Back at Custom House Gallery (2023), A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects/Studios in 2019 and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre in 2018, and group shows; Waystation(upcoming 2024), Gaffer Tape, Phizzfest 2023, The Stars are in the Earth at A4 Sounds in 2022, and Halfway to Falling at the Lord Mayor's Pavilion in 2021. She was awarded the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme 2018-22, the Arts Council’s Agility Award 2021, and Visual Arts Bursary 2021 and 2023. She was awarded the FSAS Sculpture Award in 2021.
Claire O'Hagan
Claire O’Hagan is a visual artist working through painting and drawing to explore embodied experiences of the erotic. Her work is concerned with queer eco-feminism, the body, and bio-politics, and their intersection with sexual subjectivity. Claire has a background in Anthropology. She graduated with First-Class Honours from Maynooth University in 2014. She was a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award in 2023.
The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Whiplash Beer, who will provide refreshments on opening night and The Complex Bar will be open from 8pm for everyone to enjoy drinks and chat about the show.