Entry Title: " Two Homes"
Name: Emer Gillespie, United Kingdom
Category: Non-Professional, Family


Entry Description:
“To bring out the best in parents, we must leave them full responsibility with regard to what is their own affair; the upbringing of their own family’
D H Winnicott

In ‘Two Homes’ the artist documents the parallels of her child’s two households and the ever evolving relationships within them. Using comparative diptychs of seemingly mundane routines, Gillespie gives candid insight into this alternative family unit and challenges the concept of a traditional nuclear family. The images illustrate subtle connotations of gender in each household, resulting in an honest, and sometimes humorous view of gender relations in a separated domestic partnership.

Emer Gillespie Born 1980, Ireland Currently Studies in London, and lives in Brighton www.emergillespie.com Education 2009 MA Photography, London College of Communications 2007 PG Cert Photography (1st) Central Saint Martins 2005 BA (Hons) Textiles (1st), GMIT, Ireland 2003 BA Fine Art (1st), Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland Solo Exhibitions & Projects 2008 The Space, Hove 2008 3 and 10 Theatre, Brighton Photo Fringe 2008 Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, Ireland 2008 Market House, Mullingar, Ireland 2007 The Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland 2006 Galway Arts Centre, Ireland Selected Group Exhibitions & Projects 2010 Fresh Faced and Wide Eyed, Photographers Gallery, London 2009 Shifting Perspectives, OXO Gallery, Southbank 2008 Trick or Treat, Imagine Arts Festival 2008, Waterford, Ireland 2008 XHIBIT 08, Davies Street, University of the Arts London (exh cat) 2008 Artists Film at the Collection, Usher Gallery at the collection, Lincolnshire (exh cat) 2007 Strikethrough at The Trafalgar, Trafalgar Square, London. www.strikethrough.org 2007 CROP, Cenral Saint Martins, Postgraduate Show, London (exh cat) 2006 Max5 Festival, Southwark 2006 Document, Millennium Arts building, NUIG, Ireland (exh cat) 2006 International ArtExpo , Indiana International Video Art & Architecture Festival-Indiana, University Art Gallery (USA) 2006 International ArtExpo “Temporary Identities” digital and video art event at Novosibirsk State Art Museum (Russia) 2006 8x8 at the Fisheries Tower, Galway, Ireland 2005 Video HM, Armory square, New York. 2005 Co-Lab, Tulca Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland 2005 The Fourth Floor, eNSO, Hynes Yard Car Park, Galway, Ireland 2005 Galway Film Fleadh, short film section, Galway, Ireland (exh cat) 2005 Praxis, Cork City of Culture 2005, Tig Fili Gallery, Cork, Ireland (exh cat) 2005 Galway Mayo Institute of technology Honours Degree graduate exhibition. (exh cat) 2005 THE BOOK OF IDEAS, Art scene WAREHOUSE, Shanghai, China. 2003 Galway Mayo Institute of Technology Diploma graduate exhibition. (exh cat) Fellowships, Residencies & Awards Sim residency, Iceland, 2009 Artist in residency, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, 2005/2006 Bank of Ireland student of the year, Cluain Mhuire Art college, Galway Chosen as a Shots Young Photographer, 2008 http://www.shots.net/young_photographers.asp Collections FBD Insurance Dundalk County Council Collection Private collectors Public Talks & Lectures 2006 Textile 05, Kaunas Art Biennial, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland 2006 My Practice so far, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland Teaching and Lecturing 2005-2006 Artist in Residence, Cluain Mhuire, Galway. Additional tutor to degree and diploma yr students.