Meet the artist
Siobhán McDonald is an Irish artist based in Dublin. Her practice draws attention to contemporary topics dealing with air, breath and atmospheric phenomena, weaving scientific knowledge into her art in a poetic and thoughtful manner, emphasising field work and collaboration she works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. This process gives form to a range of projects which consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time. Her work with glaciers and other natural phenomena deploys a unique artistic language that gives form to intangible and richly varied processes including painting, drawing, film and sound.
SciArt collaboration at JRC
The Mondes Marins programme at the Camargo Foundation engages deeply with the representation of marine ecologies and the knowledge-production processes that shape our understanding of water.
She intends to connect JRC scientists working across sea and water systems, the Mediterranean, wetlands, soil, and related ecologies into this expanding dialogue for a new project. She believes it’s a genuinely exciting opportunity and a strong moment to build meaningful exchange between her JRC research and artistic inquiry.