Artist Mairéad McClean, pictured with her work, No More, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Mairéad McClean is a visual artist with a career spanning more than 30 years, working across various media such as film, photography, drawing and installation. She frequently incorporates found footage, historical and family archives, filmed performances, and televisual material into her work. Her art explores themes such as how individuals navigate systems of control, the ways we remember and how the language of filmmaking influences our perception of what we see.
McClean was a Reader in Film and Video Arts at The University of Greenwich, London where she taught Documentary film and photographic practice for 12 years. She left academic life to pursue her own work in 2012. Since then she has won prizes (MAC INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE, 2014 Belfast, NOW & AFTER JURY PRIZE, 2015, Moscow, Russia) and has presented work in the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and in museums across the UK and Ireland.
Her video and film work sits in the collections of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
She currently lives and works in the UK.
CV available upon request.