Siobhán Clancy

Invasive, 2023

Photograph on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm | Unframed: 49.5 x 49.5 cm

‘This is a self-portrait before an appointment with my surgical oncologist, following tumour removal and lymph node sampling. Her expert stitches are healing but under my skin is a feeling I can only describe through the brightly burning invasive species I picked from the garden.

Between these invasions, against a backdrop of crises affecting home, climate and humanity, and in a moment of suspense before receiving my biopsy results, I sit;
vulnerable,
flawed,
automatically-filtered,
hopeful,
apprehensive,
compliant,
complicit.’ - Siobhán Clancy.

Siobhán Clancy practices visual art with a focus on community-building and justice through collaboration. She works in activist, community, educational, health, and youth contexts. Past performance and exhibition venues include the Crawford Art Gallery (2019), Smock Alley Theatre (2018), A4 Sounds Gallery (2018, 2017, 2016), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2016) and Project Arts Centre (2015). With the support of an Arts Council Bursary and the mentorship of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, Clancy is re-engaging with her practice after a three year hiatus. Her current artistic focus is lived cancer experience informed by her own treatment and recovery.

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