Biography and work of Yvonne McGuinness

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Yvonne McGuinness is an Irish artist known for her work in the UK and Ireland. A multimedia artist, she works in various fields of visual art such as video installation and print. Yvonne dabbled in photography, sewing, sculpture, and writing. According to the artist, such temporary projects create the basis for more meaningful work.

Who is E. McGuinness?

Yvonne's artwork is above all a subtle form of tension created between revelation and disguise. She develops projects that create a dynamic moment of connection with the place and society. As an artist, Yvonne McGuinness is interested in embodying the experience of a place and re-imagining everyday life. Yvonne has also made several short films: "Charlie's Place", "Procession", "It's Between Us".

Work The Well

One of the latest works of Yvonne McGuinness - The Well - staging on three screens. Video and sound installation featured inmagnificent, decommissioned 17th century church. The film is presented on three screens - sometimes on one, then on two or three at once, which keeps the viewer in suspense.

St Patricks Well is a scenic spot, very popular with pilgrims, within walking distance of Clonmel town. One of Ireland's largest holy wells. Water flows into a pond, made in the early Christian, Celtic style. There is also a 17th century church. David Flanner is well known to visitors to this wonderful place. An elderly man who cares for the holy place knows almost everything about this place, and he will give a tour better than any guide.

The Well opens with David Flanner, known as the “well keeper”. He slowly walks around the well, talks to visitors, then moves to the middle of the well - this is a large pond, and cleans the surface. Soon, Liv O'Donoghue, a ballerina from Dublin, "breaks into" the film. She wraps the cross in the center of the pond with a white material - possibly muslin. And dances - glides on the water, as if performing an ancient ritual.

The line between the dynamic movements of the dancer and the leisurely work of the “well keeper” is rather thin, but convincing. They charge this place with a special spirit, their movements on the screen capture the viewer. It is clear that Yvonne McGuinness spent a lot of time researching this property to get a feel for its spirit, the passage of time, and her brilliant work The Well is the best evidence of this.

The woodlands

Holdingground where the wood lands is another work by Yvonne McGuinness, this is a two-channel production of the film next to her family home. The fields where she often played were once part of a vast estate owned by the Plunkett family. The place where the patriarchs roamed is now the Malahide Golf Club. While revisiting this location for her work, she worked with a group of young people from Dublin 15’s Foroige.

The film captures their crucial stage of life as they begin to find their place in the world. It combines documentary films and the theatrical atmosphere of step-by-step reading. What is naturalistic and real is displaced by the textual narratives of a bygone era. Boundaries and meaning shift, simultaneously shifting and displacing the audience both visually and verbally.

Other works

Much of Yvonne's work touches on the tense moment between the artist's desire for self-expression and his conflicting impulse to hide what is personal. Other works by Yvonne McGuinness are presented on her website, among them:

• The Central Field.
• You Can't Feel What You Feel.
• Moving mountains, wishing well, Bridget Cleary we won't tell.
• Mobile Monuments (Promotional).

Biography

Yvonne McGuinness was born on October 12, 1972 in Kilkenny, Ireland. The father is a well-known businessman who owns vineyards in the south of France and, since 1990, the famous Domaine des Anges winery. Uncle - famous Irish politician Jim McGuinness.

Yvonne has a master's degree inart at the Royal College of Art in London. For some time she was a student at Crawford College, Cork. Multimedia artist with special interests - Yvonne - is not afraid to experiment. She ventured into the film world and made three short films.

The latest of these, The Well, released in 2017, received great reviews from critics and viewers alike. In 2017, Yvonne signed with Draíocht. The company partnered with the Fingal County Arts Authority to commission Yvonne to create the site and direct the film for the prestigious annual Amharc Fhine Gall.

Private life

If the art projects of Yvonne McGuinness are not known to many, then the whole world knows Yvonne as the wife of actor K. Murphy. On all trips, she accompanies her star husband. Murphy's first passion was music, together with his brother they created a group, and at one of the concerts in London in 1996, he first met Yvonne. Yvonne McGuinness and Cillian Murphy do not like to make their personal lives public, so little is known about this couple.

Their wedding took place in 2004 in Father Yvonne's vineyards in southern France. For some time the family lived in London, but they decided it was time to let off some steam and moved to Ireland, where the population is only six million people. After the bustle of London, peace and tranquility reigned here. Because of the great climate, the Irish are known for their good he alth, so children will be better off here. In addition, "they will grownext to grandparents," as Yvonne says.

Their Victorian house is located on the coast near the Irish capital. Sons, 12-year-old Malachy and 9-year-old Aran, are delighted with their new home, where the family's favorite Labrador Scout lives with them. Every day they all walk along the beach together, and if during their life in London someone had told them that they would return to Ireland, they would not have believed it. But now their family knows that going back to their ancestral home is the best decision they ever made.