BIO
Myfanwy Frost-Jones
Visual artist working with photography, video, installation and sculpture. Member of Backwater Artists, Sample Studios and the National Sculpture Factory. Passionate about environmental sustainability, biodiversity and local food networks whilst sustaining a growing eco-social art practice using text, found objects, photography and video in the wild landscape of the Beara Penninsula in Southwest Ireland.
My work explores personal histories of invasion, famine and colonisation, interrogating the human/nature relationship of industry within the countryside whilst observing the constant movement and change inherent in a working landscape and decolonising the archive.
Awards
2022
Backwater Artist Studios Moving Image Bursary
CCAD Best Thesis
Cork Textiles Network Award
MTU Purchase Prize
MTU Exhibition Award
Sample Studios Associate Residency Award
National Sculpture Factory Residency Award
CCAD Photography Residency
RDS Visual Art Award Exhibiting Artist 2022
IndieCork Festival 2022 selected Art(ist) Film
RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award
Graduate Artist Bursary 2023, awarded by the Cork IFF, NSF and Sample-Studios
Education
Cork ETB, CSN
Art, FETAC Level 6. Distinction.
MTU, Cork
Crawford College of Art and Design, BA in Fine Art. First Class.
Kenmare ETB,
FETAC Level 5 Art. Distinction
Exhibitions
March 2023
MTU James Barry Exhibition Centre
Recipient of the Registrar’s Prize Solo Exhibition to happen in March 2023
Nov 2022
Dingle Lit
Invasion Stories photobook, selected as part of the Unbound Contemporary Art Project at the Dingle Literary Festival 2022
Oct 2022
RDS Visual Arts Awards
Selected for the 2022 RDS Visual Art Awards exhibition taking place in the RDS Concert Hall from October 21-29. Curated by Aideen Barry.
Summer 2022
Living Canvas Dublin
Selected as part of the Emerging Artists programme via IPUT Dublin, with screenings throughout the summer on Europe's largest non-commercial outdoor screen
June 2022
CCAD Cork
Graduate group show at The Crawford College of Art and Design