Sarah Iremonger

Sarah Iremonger has been working as a visual artist since the early 1990's. Early painted works were embedded in romantic and modernist traditions, with epic implications. Later works, included site-specific installations, used a multimedia approach of found, created and adapted images, including photographs, murals, painting, drawing, badges, cards, digital media, video and neon, which attempted to attain a kind of entanglement with the world, exploring ideas of representation and how as a hangover of the romantic tradition, a scenario of separation from the world around us and each other, is perpetuated. A recent return to painting focuses on the appropriation and adaptation of found images, which places subject matter and personal artistic expression in the background, so that visual signifiers become hidden in a forest of post-representational camouflage like thought experiments exploring the illusion of perception.

Iremonger was born in Dublin in 1965, living and working in Co. Cork since 1985. She co-founded the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork in 1985, volunteering there until 1999 and working as an independent curator and artists liaison (part-time) between 1999-2015. She studied pre-diploma and fine art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin 1983-85, printmaking and photography at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork 1985-87 and completed an MA in European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK in 1998.