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Patricia Mc Kenna is our next artist for Art Boundaries, Inc. She will be in residence from April 12 unitil May 3rd 2004. During her stay in the panandle area, McKennna will conduct workshops and create an installation about history, land, and geography. Art Boundaries Unlimted, Inc. has received a Quarterly Assistance Award from the Floirda Division of Cultural Affairs to support the McKenna residency. Her workshops and events will be co-sponsored by the Brogan Museum of Arts and Sciences in Tallahassee and the Tattered Pages Bookstore in Crawfordville.

Patricia Mc Kenna is an Irish artist working in Multi-media and Installation. Her work includes the installations “The Grey House” and “Soil,” which were part of the series “Marking the Land.” She has exhibited widely in Ireland, USA, England, and Europe. She has been awarded a number of Arts Council grants and travel grants and has been a Rockefeller Scholar in Bellagio. Italy. Her work has been documented in several publications including Sculpture Magazine.

“[Her] intimate sculptures and site-specific installations are known for their unique combinations of materials and ability to create moods of quiet unease. Born and raised in Dublin, her family comes from Swanlibar County Cavan – a rural landscape in the north of the Irish republic that has been radically transformed by migration and displacement. She was involved in the Artist Work program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin in 1997 and is perhaps best known for The Grey House (1993-94) which earned her a place in the IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award’s shortlist in 1994 (an award modeled closely on the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize in Great Britain). Since the late 1970s McKenna has participated in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and throughout Europe. Her work was included in “Shattering the Crockery” at the Dairy Center for the Arts in ] Boulder, Colorado, in 1998, and “Grotesqueness of Desire” at Inside Art in Chicago in 1999."
Sculpture Magazine, April 1, 2001.