Áine Phillips makes live art and video in Ireland and internationally. She is involved in artist led projects and curates live art events in Ireland. Her work aims to link autobiographic themes, actions and images with wider social and political realities.

"Phillips' practice is grounded in subverting the ceremonies of Catholic Irish culture. Through her performances she speaks of desire and overcoming entrapment." Helena Walsh 2010

Image: Redress Series 3, performance by Áine Phillips, photo by Jonathan Sammon

NEW PERFORMANCE: Labour
]Performance S P A C E[ Hackney London
http://www.performancespace.or

Documentation of performances 2006 - 2008 on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips

For new writing on Áine Phillips' performances:
www.thisisliveart.co.uk/Brutal Silences

DVD Live Autobiography is available for sale on Unbound online shop for Live Art books & DVDs at the Live Art Development Agency's website:
AinePhillips@Unbound

BIOGRAPHY:
Áine Phillips has been exhibiting multi-media performance works in Ireland and internationally since the late 80's. She has created work for diverse contexts; public art commissions, the street, club events and gallery exhibitions including City of Women Festival Ljubljana, NON Festival Bergen, Kyoto Art Centre, The Stanley Picker Gallery London, Judith Wright Centre for Art Brisbane Australia, Tanzquartier Vienna, Moving Image Gallery and The Kitchen New York, National Review of Live Art Glasgow, Mozovia Art Centre Warsaw Poland. In Ireland at the Irish Film Centre, Arthouse, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, EV+A Limerick, Galway Arts Centre, 126 and the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin. She co-curates Live@8 since 2008 in Galway, a bi-monthly screening of video and Live Art Live@8.blogspot and she curated Tulca Live 2005-2007, festival of video and Live Art in Galway. Her work has been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Clare Arts Office and Culture Ireland. Head of Sculpture at the Burren College of Art Ireland, she completed a practice based PhD at the National College of Art and Design Dublin in January 2009 entitled Live Autobiography.
For more information on the scope of the PhD project see ainephillips-autobiograph.com

Lois Keidan Director of the Live Art Development agency in London:
"Áine is making some of the most mature, intelligent and accomplished work imaginable dealing with complex and important issues such as motherhood, gender, belief and responsibility. Few other artists have her depth or her rigour or are able to address such complex ideas in simple and highly accessible ways." 2003

Michelle Browne, Circa Spring 2009 Reviews, The Art of Love:
"Phillips’s performance of this text brought us through the intricacies of passion and seduction with the precision of a military operation.. The action was simple and beautiful and the purity of this gesture compared with the formality of the text."

Mary Paterson, A-N Magazine April 2010, Reviews:
"Áine Phillips' catwalk show was a multi-layered public performance woven from an array of private experiences... Phillips used art to prompt transformation. A catwalk transformed into a runway for feminist identity integrated with ideals of beauty and desire. Here, the pervasive objecthood of women (lost, models or other) was entwined with the empowered embodiment of the students taking part."

Stanley Picker Gallery London
"...Louder than Bombs" Art, Action & Activism