My work is an exploration of everyday objects and acts, how we as bodies interact with and undertake them, and the ways they might make us think and feel.  

I use ceramics, metal and the body as materials, tools and sources of inspiration and understanding in the creation of functional and sculptural objects. I see my immersive installations as ‘autotopographies’ of evocative or affective objects that resonate with viewers in thinking and feeling ways, engaging the head, hands and heart in both their construction and consideration.  

These objects tend to have close ties to the body and its necessary functions – for example eating, shitting, crying, sleeping – and cause me to stop and think about our existence, mortality and essence. I am interested in the idea of the abject, and how we have invented tools in order to distance ourselves from things that might remind us of our bodiliness and fragility a little too much.  

Bio: Méabh Breathnach (b. 1996, Dundalk, Ireland) graduated from the Sculpture & Environmental Art department at the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. They have exhibited in Glasgow’s Pollok House, House for an Art Lover and in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition. They have been awarded the Sir William Gillies Bequest (RSA), Creative Scotland’s Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, and the Young Scot Nurturing Young Talent Fund. At present, they are undertaking their Masters in Craft! in Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.  

My work is an exploration of everyday objects and acts, how we as bodies interact with and undertake them, and the ways they might make us think and feel.  

I use ceramics, metal and the body as materials, tools and sources of inspiration and understanding in the creation of functional and sculptural objects. I see my immersive installations as ‘autotopographies’ of evocative or affective objects that resonate with viewers in thinking and feeling ways, engaging the head, hands and heart in both their construction and consideration.  

These objects tend to have close ties to the body and its necessary functions – for example eating, shitting, crying, sleeping – and cause me to stop and think about our existence, mortality and essence. I am interested in the idea of the abject, and how we have invented tools in order to distance ourselves from things that might remind us of our bodiliness and fragility a little too much.  

Bio: Méabh Breathnach (b. 1996, Dundalk, Ireland) graduated from the Sculpture & Environmental Art department at the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. They have exhibited in Glasgow’s Pollok House, House for an Art Lover and in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition. They have been awarded the Sir William Gillies Bequest (RSA), Creative Scotland’s Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, and the Young Scot Nurturing Young Talent Fund. At present, they are undertaking their Masters in Craft! in Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.