TRACKING CHANGE: SEEN AND UNSEEN
KATE McELROY
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Newspaper articles on tracing paper
2022
Tracking Change: Seen and Unseen
Tracking Change: Seen and unseen examines the articles on climate change in the most read newspaper in Ireland; The Irish Independent. The project examines the coverage the climate change crisis receives in this selected media format and questions whether it was sufficiently being treated as an imminent world crisis. The artist collected the headline, image, page number and a selected aspect of text from each article archiving and has catalogued them as a means of analysis.
The project documents the articles for the month of July 2022. In the middle of the month severe fires happened across Europe and the articles and images began to increase in length and number, and become more prominent on the front pages of the newspaper. Debates discussing carbon emissions for agriculture also featured prominently. Contrastingly, the severe effects seen in countries across the world were often limited or reserved for the World section in the end section of the paper. For the true impact of a global crisis like climate change to be felt, its multifarious effects across the world needs to be seen. The artist calls for a broader reporting on the impacts of climate change for the true resonance of its repercussions to be seen.
KATE
McELROY
Kate McElroy is a multidisciplinary artist from Limerick and based in Cork City. Coalescing a sense of space and time, Kate’s work combines photography, found objects, recordings, text and installation.She received a first class honours Masters degree from Crawford College of Art and Design (2021) and an honours BA from Limerick School of Art and Design, 2013. Kate is currently on residency in PADA, Lisbon with two upcoming exhibitions there in August, 2023 and is supported by a Cork City Council Artist Bursary.
Recent exhibitions include Fragments in Constellation with Re:Group for Skibbereen Arts Festival, July – August 2022. Kate is a member of the artist collective inter_site and were awarded a Project Award from the Arts Council, Ireland. (2021) Recent exhibitions include inter_site at Queen’s Old Castle for STAMP empowering Cork, Pulsating P(l)ace, at Wandesford Quay, curated by Ciara Rodgers, 2022, ‘Oileán’ curated by Sinead Barret on Spike Island and The Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, Fitzgerald’s Park and inter_site at the Marina Market, Cork City, 2021. Kate was a selected graduate for ‘Origins’ in Lismore Castle Arts, November 2021 and ‘In Cahoots with the Earth’, A4 sounds studios, Dublin, December 2021. She was one in four selected artists for ‘And, if we observe the present’ Catalyst Art Centre Belfast as part of Future(s), Belfast Photo Festival, 2021. She was artist in resident at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre 2020 and 2021.
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www.katemcelroy.com
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katemcelroy7@gmail.com