She lives and works in Edinburgh, but is originally from Galway. She recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a (BA hons) in Intermedia. Before that she did Psychological studies and Classical civilisation at NUIG and also a portfolio course at GTI.
her body of work mainly consist of video pieces, were the character seems to be almost in between animation and documentary. and the "people" in her films act and look funny, but usually seems to be talking about and solving something more serious. the idea of social experiments comes to mind after watching her pieces and its done with a good bit of quirkiness and comedy.
here is the link to the work that was in the tulca festival:
http://emmafinn.co.uk/works/moreorless
after the tulca visit, i sat down and went through my notes. I stuck in the information sheets i'd gathered and also started making a mindmap of my overall experience.
i also Nuala Ni Fhlathuins work very interesting. they way she used and combined materials to create really delicate pieces. there was something about the fragile sense of the sculptures that i found intriguing. and also the idea of paying attention to detail, observing no matter how small the thing is.
at times i found it challenging to tie it all together under the theme "Golden Mountain" and after a while I decided not to worry so much about it, and to just enjoy it for what it was. A good few pieces of work was hard to access and understand for me and at the end i couldn't take in more information. All in all it was an interesting experience, but i think for next time i will pace the gallery visits out over the space of a few days so i have enough energy to engage properly with the works.
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