Reconstructing Memory – Irish Independent
Critical Review, Niall MacMonagle , August 28 2017
What Lies Beneath For Sligo-based artist Clea van der Grijn, there were “too many lost years trying to be something I was not. I…
Reconstructing Memory – The Thin Air
Critical Review, Rebecca Kennedy
Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to…
Reconstructing Memory – Circa Magazine
Critical Review
Venturing into ‘Reconstructing Memory’, a multi-media exhibition featuring large-scale paintings, photography, installations, artifacts and sculptures at The Model, Sligo, is a truly subversive experience. The…
Reconstructing Memory – The Sunday Times
Critical Review, Cristin Leach
In Mexico, the date of birth is marked on the graves of children, but not the date they died. The feelings evoked by this…
Reconstructing Memory – The Guardian
Critical Review, Editor
Cléa van der Grijn: Reconstructing Memory Limerick City Gallery of Art. Following a residency in Mexico, Van der Grijn presents intricately haunting installations embodying…
Picture This: Reconstructing Memory @ The Model
Essay, Rebecca Kennedy, 17th December 2016 – 2nd April 2017
Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to…
Engaged Process: Temporality, Place & Memory
Essay, Megan Johnston, September 2016
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of…
‘I loved her from the day she died’.
Essay, Catherine Marshall, August 2016
Film, painting and installation work by Cléa van der Grijn, 2016. In Cléa van der Grijn’s short film ‘Re-constructing Memory’, a child, wanders along…
Revealing the Ritual in the Exhibitionary Form
Essay, Dr Michael Birchall , August 2016
Within the canon of western art, artists are often asked to perform civic duties, by acting as ethnographers or observers of specific moments. In…
VISUAL ART PROJECT: Six Artists + A Designer + A Town Planner
Essay, Megan Johnston & Cléa Van der Grijn, 2015
Van der Grijn initiated the visual art project and has developed the initiative, exhibition and catalogue with the curatorial team. Seeking an artistic response…
