Etaoin Melville is a Cork-based visual artist, specialising in video and installation. She has received two Arts Council Agility Awards since 2021, during which time, she has been mentored by artist Aideen Barry and is collaborating with Linda Cullen (aerial artist, writer and performer) on a project called Backbone, focusing on issues around motherhood and the value we hold individually and as a society for this role, investigated through socially engaged co-created works.

She is currently exploring a new body of work ‘Ancestral Sap’ which combines film, stop frame animation, dry point print-making and painting and explores the complexities of women’s place in the world. By exploring our matrilineal lines, inherited trauma, and primal wisdom, this work seeks to provoke introspection and reconnection with ancestral knowledge.

This residency will enable Etaoin to develop these projects and bring them to a more resolved conclusion through further collaborations, in order to apply for future solo exhibition opportunities.

Open Studio

To mark the final day of her residency, Etaoin will host an Open Studio in Triskel Sample Project Space from 3-5pm on Sunday 10 November 2024. All are welcome, no booking required.

About the Artist

Etaoin Melville is a visual artist based in Cork. She holds an Honours Degree in Visual Art, (TUD, Sherkin Island) and studied Film and T.V production in St. John’s College, Cork. She is a recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Agility Awards and is a studio-based member of Sample-Studios.

Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.

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