Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists
On this month’s episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists, the sculptor and set up artist talks with the novelist about how they first found their chosen artwork kinds; concerning the unsure paths reduce in pursuit of a inventive life; and the way to negotiate that unusual transition from making work in non-public to speaking about it in public. O’Malley is representing Ireland on the 59th Venice Biennale, which opens to the general public on April 23. Bennett’s newest novel, Checkout 19 (Riverhead Books), is accessible in bookstores.
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Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists brings collectively luminaries within the fields of artwork and literature to have the conversations they themselves want to have. This month-to-month video sequence is a joint manufacturing of Artforum and Bookforum.
Born in County Mayo, Eire, Niamh O’Malley at the moment lives and works in Dublin, Eire and works with transferring picture alongside sculptural supplies akin to glass, wooden steel and stone. O’Malley, with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios because the curator, will symbolize Eire on the 59th Venice Artwork Biennale in 2022. A publication with new writings by Brian Dillon, Lizzie Lloyd and Eimear McBride will accompany the exhibition within the Irish Pavilion on the Arsenale, Venice.
Claire-Louise Bennett is the writer of Pond (Riverhead, 2016), Fish Out Of Water (Juxta Press, 2020), and Checkout 19 (Riverhead, 2022). She is at the moment writing an essay about Louise Bourgeois and psychoanalysis, and shall be showing on the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California, which runs from Could 7–8.
