Ann Ensor
My art practice is based on installation. I mostly combine large organic sculptures which are made in a durational process with a soundscape. The sculptures are fabricated using sustainable materials such as steam bent wood, kelp seaweed, raw earth, mycelium and found objects. The agency within the materials used is very important to the finished outcome. My practice explores the entangled milieus in plant, microscopic and human worlds and asks questions on our anthropomorphic relationship with nonhuman organisms. The work investigates the subject/object and culture/nature dichotomies and looks to be a catalyst in changing our relationship with nonhumans, to seeing ourselves as part of an entanglement of forces or a hyper object. I want the work to raise awareness as to what is meaningful to us individually and collectively in this way of considering matter. The work seeks to ask questions of the need to revaluate our androcentric world to a world of shared spirituality with other milieus. I am currently introducing analogue techniques to my practice.
Ensor is presently completing a residency at Loughshinny Boathouse. In 2019 she completed a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation and recent exhibitions include: Matter Has No Destiny, Pallas Studios (2018); Heavy Weather at The Complex (2018); Peripheries Open (2018); RUA (2019); RHA Summer Show (2018); Kfest, Kerry (2018). In 2017 she was a finalist at the R.D.S. Visual Arts Awards Exhibition curated by Nick Miller. Ensor holds an MFA Degree in painting (2017) from NCAD where she originally graduated in 2015 with a BA (1st Hons) in Fine Art/Sculpture. Ensor has been funded by Fingal Arts Office 2018-2022
