Sugar Rush Mountain, Murmuration, Iceberg, Milford Sound, Brinicle, and Plant Hunter
These six short animations were made using the technique of stop motion. Drawing, painting, cutting, pasting, moving, shooting and editing are some of the processes involved in making these paper cutouts appear to move across the screen. A lot of the cutouts were made from cutting up sections of old drawings and paintings.
The work tries to capture a sense of movement within a brief moment rather than creating a specific narrative.
The animations are titled Sugar Rush Mountain, Murmuration, Iceberg, Milford Sound, Brinicle, and Plant Hunter. Each animation stemmed from a curiosity about naturally occurring phenomena.
Deirdre Byrne is based in Dublin, Ireland & Seville, Spain.
Deirdre Byrne is a visual artist from Gorey, Co. Wexford. She has a Fine Art Painting degree and a Postgraduate diploma in Visual Art Education from NCAD. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally.
Recent exhibitions and projects include; selection to the 191st RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, selection to the 139th RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast. This year she was commissioned by Creative Ireland and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office to create a new animation that was projected onto dlr LexIcon as part of Light Up Dún Laoghaire.