Raine Hozier-Byrne

Birds in Flight over Glendalough by Lorraine Hozier Byrne Irish Artist…]

My own personal favorite piece 

Raine Hozier Byrne is currently living and working in Wicklow and graduated in 2011 with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts Practice. Since leaving College, exhibitions include Hard Times, which toured from Cill Railaig Gallery to Urban Retreat Gallery in Dublin. (Where she was offered and availed of a residency) Hozier Byrnes work was short-listed for the Siamsa Tire Emerging Artists Awards.

Her work has been included in many private and public collections including in government, River Deep, and the IADT president’s collection. She is currently working towards two exhibitions with the Irish Wave in Beijing, where two series, Analytic of the sublime and Critique of pure reason, will be shown in the spring of 2012.

Artist statement:
Raine Hozier Byrne’s work is composed of deconstructed elements of contemporary media images. The works explores subjectivity, identity, mass reproduction and epistemology, what we find possible to know. Appropriating found media images into elaborate collages; Hozier Byrne creates images within images, in an attempt to challenge the nature of representation, outside the constraints of its self-identified associations.

To depict contemporary iconic and even iconographic historical imagery often with a deconstructed portraiture aesthetic, the artist uses a combination of various printmaking and painting techniques. The Artist draws heavily from media, politics and history and through a multi-layer of signifiers and visual symbols, in order to weave together seemingly random elements into a cohesive whole.

Hozier Byrne’s work is an examination of Contemporary sublime and subjective perception, taking us to the limits of our understanding where the very notion of what we know slips and fragments.

Education:
2007-2011 BA (Hons) Visual Arts Practice IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
2012-2014 Masters Fine Art (Painting) NCAD, Dublin.
Awards:
Artlinks, Mentoring Award
2012-2014 Masters Fine Art (Painting) NCAD, Dublin.
Residency Award, Cill Railaig

http://www.raine.ie/index.html

 Raine and John Byrne @ Electric Picnic

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Research- “Hozier” By Raine Hozier-Byrne.
Bibliography- Hozier.com
Raine Hozier Byrne’s work is composed of deconstructed elements of contemporary media images. The works explores subjectivity, identity, mass reproduction and epistemology, what we find possible to know. Appropriating found media images into elaborate collages; Hozier Byrne creates images within images, in an attempt to challenge the nature of representation, outside the constraints of its self-identified associations.
To depict contemporary iconic and even iconographic historical imagery often with a deconstructed portraiture aesthetic, the artist uses a combination of various printmaking and painting techniques. The Artist draws heavily from media, politics and history and through a multi-layer of signifiers and visual symbols, in order to weave together seemingly random elements into a cohesive whole.
Hozier Byrne’s work is an examination of Contemporary sublime and subjective perception, taking us to the limits of our understanding where the very notion of what we know slips and fragments.
I was searching through iTunes and came across this new album cover by the artist “Hozier” and thought to put this up as a little bit of research because it’s an interesting painting. Also in many ways this is a representation of what appropriation usually involves, the only research I could find is that the musicians mother (Raine Hozier- Byrne) painted this for his album, but it is an extremely pretty painting and it interests me because of the face has been removed and replaced, another example of what I am going to be trying out with my own work.