Evelyn Broderick

UCD College of Social Sciences and Law



I am a multidisciplinary artist and traditional Irish musician. I use socially engaged structures to shackle and bind drawing, woodblock printmaking and sculpture together. My work is inherently political with social and

economic overtones. The idea of ‘making’ features a lot in my recent work, skill sharing as a means for knowledge production, making by hand and how this is a primal thing and good for the mind. I investigate making as thinking, inspired by Richard Sennet words ‘the head and the hand are not simply separated intellectually but socially’.



My approach varies from work to work. I begin by gathering materials that I like the feel of which is mainly different timber’s and more recently a focus on Irish sourced timbers. Over the last few years I have been working as

sustainably friendly as possible, using found materials and raw materials that can be decomposed. I also find unwanted waste material from local builders businesses. This is on going to my research in using materials as a resource to think with the actions of your hands, allowing embodied knowledge to guide your thinking. With this in mind I begin to make wooden sculpture, wood block prints and more recently sound from wind instruments.