Patsy Tyrrell is a visual artist working with performance, drawing and sculpture.
Tyrrell’s practice is grounded in a concern for how the physical and psychological limitations of a person’s situational experience might hinder and deviate their movements. Tyrrell’s practice is grounded in thinking through making and her work often takes form through performance, sound, drawing, and sculpture. Tyrrell strives for a balance between a very individual, somatic, slowly thoughtful practice and an outward facing socially engaged practice involving public intervention. Through touch and time, she finds a point of contact to make tangible her own perceptual experience. She slows a space down to consider the invisible realities or happenings within the space, visually and physically feeling through an embodied and tacit knowledge of experience.
“Monument” frames softness, gentle power and small moments of movement as monumental in both their individual mark and their accumulative fabric. Taking up space in softness, Tyrrell exemplifies the structural importance of stillness and vulnerability.
Tyrrell graduated from the National College of Art and Design, with 1st Class Honours, where she studied Sculpture and Expanded Practice.
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