Jan McCullough
Jan McCullough is an artist from Northern Ireland. Her work explores the human acts of construction, fabrication and DIY, and the communities of interest and place that form around them – employing the materials and languages associated with these activities to create sculptural installations, interventions and photographs.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024); NOUA, Bodø, Norway (2023); The Complex, Dublin (2023); PS², Belfast (2022); Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2022); Freelands Gallery, London (2021); The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry (2020); Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, South Korea (2019) and Filter Space, Chicago (2018). She was Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Light Work in Syracuse, New York (2020-2021). McCullough has been recipient of the Making and Momentum [In Conversation with Eileen Gray] Artist Prize, Ireland (2022) and nominated for The Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize, Austria (2023); Platform at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); The Infinity Award at The International Centre of Photography, New York (2016) and The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize at The Photographers Gallery, London (2016).
Frame Work I (2023) from the series Night Class (2023-2024)
Framed Photographic Pigment Print, 122cm x 170cm. Materials: Mahogany lengths, birch dowelling, internal door, parquet. Installation View at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024).
Framed Photographic Pigment Print, 122cm x 170cm. Materials: Mahogany lengths, whitewood, matt emulsion, parquet. Installation View at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024).
Site-specific sculptural and photographic installation.
Materials: Timber structure, pigment photographic print, frame emulsion: biro blue.
Installation View at CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Photographic Pigment Print, Bleached Walnut Frame, 49cm x 35cm.
Site-specific sculptural and photographic installation. Materials: Pigment photographic print, plywood, trestles, torqued steel, boiled linseed oil, wall emulsion: docket pink.
Installation View at CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Series of 7 Colour Photographic Pigment Prints, 49cm x 35cm each.
Installation at The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as part of the exhibition Mother Tongue.
Site-specific sculptural and photographic intervention: colour photographic print on plywood, timber length, matt emulsion.
Installation View at Open Studios, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.