Sonia Shiel

UCD College of Arts and Humanities

Whether painting, sculpture, audio or video, Sonia Shiel's work explores its protagonists' attempts to survive the odds of nature and the laws of their own creation, in scenarios that reflect back the processes of art- and promise-making as something the same. Her works conjure surreal encounters between fictional characters and the illusory world around them as they struggle with what to say and how to be heard, with what they see and how to describe it, with what they want to make and how to achieve it, and to be better understood.