Yvonne McGuinness
{{short description|Irish artist (born 1972)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Yvonne McGuinness
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|10|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| occupation = Visual artist
| spouse = {{marriage|Cillian Murphy|2004}}
| children = 2
| relatives = John McGuinness (uncle)
}}
Yvonne McGuinness (born 12 October 1972){{Cite web |date=2024-03-11 |title=Cillian Murphy gives sweet shoutout to wife Yvonne McGuinness in Oscars speech |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a46313013/who-is-yvonne-mcguinness-cillian-murphy-wife/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Cosmopolitan |language=en-GB}} is an Irish visual artist who works in a variety of contexts, including video installation and print. Born in Dublin, Ireland, and now based in Monkstown, County Dublin, her works have been shown in Ireland and the UK, and she holds an MA from the Royal College of Art in London.[http://www.ucd.ie/research/schemes/images_of_research/selection_panel.htm University College Dublin biography]. Accessed 25 May 2007.
A 2004 biography stated, "Recent works have been preoccupied with notions of portrayal of the self and with deception, dealing with the sublimated desire for self-expression of the artist and the tension between revelation and concealment."[https://web.archive.org/web/20071130055854/http://www.geocities.com/five_cassland/ View from the Sitting Room show] Cassland, London (2004). Accessed 25 May 2007.
She has made several short films: This is between us (2011), Charlie's Place (2012), and Procession (2012).{{Cite web|url = https://vimeo.com/ymcguinness|title = Yvonne|access-date = 23 April 2015|website = Vimeo}}
Work
McGuiness's installations incorporate “film, performance, sculptural and textile elements, sound, and writing.” {{Cite web |date=2023-09-07 |title=Yvonne Mc Guinness - Irish artist working with place, time and community. |url=https://yvonnemcguinness.com/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Yvonne Mc Guinness |language=en-US}}
Her work focuses on subject matter concerned with place, time and community.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-09 |title=About - Yvonne McGuinness - Irish Visual Artist |url=https://yvonnemcguinness.com/about/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Yvonne Mc Guinness |language=en-US}} She has an interest in the embodied experience of place and belonging by staging live, public, interventions and performances which create surreal and dynamic moments of interaction and connection to place, time and communities. This is immersive work, which is collaborative and generally temporary. Her film installation work often reconstructs the documentation of these performances for gallery contexts.
Personal life
In 2004, McGuinness married her longtime boyfriend Cillian Murphy, with whom she has two sons, born in 2005 and 2007.{{cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1794559,00.html |title='I just want to challenge myself with each role' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806092012/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1794559,00.html |archive-date=6 August 2007 |newspaper=The Observer |date=11 June 2006 |access-date=8 August 2007}} She is the niece of Fianna Fáil politician John McGuinness.[http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/general/Lights-camera-action-as-shooting.1148606.jp "Lights, camera, action as shooting begins"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724080715/http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/general/Lights-camera-action-as-shooting.1148606.jp |date=24 July 2009 }}, Kilkenny People, 1 September 2004. Accessed 25 April 2009.
References
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External links
- {{official|http://yvonnemcguinness.com/}}
- [https://vimeo.com/61658232 Procession] (2012) video clip
- [https://vimeo.com/32918342 This is between us] (2011) video
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