Sinéad Danagher
Visual Artist
She/They
sinead.danagher@gmail.com
ARTIST BIO
Sinéad Danagher is a visual artist living and working in Dublin. Their training across architecture, history, and fine art informs a practice curious about how we inhabit space. Danagher uses tools across printmaking, photography, drawing, and sculpture to investigate environments built and unbuilt, real and imagined, tangible and intangible.
Presentations of their work include exhibitions at Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (Cambridge, MA), Godspeed Arts (Brooklyn, NY), and Skilset (Brooklyn, NY). Additionally, Danagher supports other artists with both fabrication and administration needs. Exhibitions to which they lent such assistance include Hugh Hayden’s Hughman at Lisson Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Hughmans at Lisson Gallery (New York, NY), Emily Koch’s To Be Made Whole at Pleaides Gallery (New York, NY), and several exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery (New York, NY) from October 2022-2023.
SELECTED WORKS
Four Walls
2022
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Student Exhibition
This series of prints evolved from an investigation in the textures of environment and a query about how these accumulation of these textures might impact an inhabiter of the space. The resulting body of work was installed in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts in fulfillment of the degree programme at Harvard College.
Adaptive Reuse Furniture
2023
Skilset NY, Brooklyn Navy Yard
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These examples of unique furniture designs were developed during my tenure at adaptive reuse design studio Skilset NY. The studio specializes in a zero-waste approach that turns found “waste” objects into design objects. The images above show a chair made from reclaimed stage jacks and a child’s seat made from a discarded IKEA shelf. The design practice is informed by bold form and color as exemplified in the work of twentieth-century American artists, particularly Donald Judd.
Chair(ed)
2022
MIT School of Architecture
This chair was developed in my first formal course in woodworking and furniture design through the Furniture Making course at MIT’s School of Architecture. The design proposes a chair that can operate in two orientations, at an erect, desk-height and a reclined, low-seater. The design was realized at scale, crafted in cherry and maple to emphasize the joinery and rectilinear forms of the silhouette