Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell works across installation, film, activism and more recently printmaking. Her work explores how our environment (physical/social/fictional) affects our behaviour and sense of identity.
ARTIST BIO
Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell is a multi-media artist based in Belfast. She studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and completed her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She is part of Array Collective (Turner Prize, 2021) and the artist duo DUNCAN (Richard Martin, Glasgow). Sighle organised and created work for immersive, site specific events ‘PROCEDURE’ and ‘GAMES NIGHT!’, and has worked with organisations Household, Platform Arts and residence. In 2023 she initiated ‘LENA’ a series of workshops and artist residencies in a cottage in County Down.
Celtic Roots I : Ulster Cycles, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, Aquatint Etching on Copper Plate, 2024.
Above left: Installation shot, The Occasional Man, immersive site specific film for Havelock House, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, made in collaboration with Richard Martin for Belfast Film Festival, in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive and Flax Studios, 2020 (photo credit Stu Calvin)
'Scripted Cities: Belfast', (work in progress), Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, film still, 2020.
Sighle’s new series of aquatint etchings ‘Ulster Cycles’ depict mimetic figures using celtic, biological and architectural imagery.
Celtic Roots II : Ulster Cycles, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, Aquatint Etching on Copper Plate, 2024.
'Postcard III', Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, digital collage, Array Collective, for 'An Dún' installation in 'Self-Determination: A Global Perspective' Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2023.
This has played out in dark dinner parties, bespoke bedrooms, interrogating waiting rooms and fixed game shows. Her ongoing film project ‘Scripted Cities’ looks at how narratives of place are created, reshaped and sold, and how this affects the selfhood and fantasies of their inhabitants and visitors.
Studio image, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, 2024.
