Streams of Consciousness: a research residency by Jonathan Brennan
Image: Overflow / Underflow, Jonathan Brennan
Jonathan Brennan is a multi-disciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting, photography, moving image, and sound. He is based at Vault Artist Studios.
Jonathan’s work is about place: architectural and urban places as well as what is traditionally referred to as landscape, and how both interact. He is drawn to the less obvious, the neglected and the abandoned – alleyways, culverted rivers, wastelands, abandoned spaces and objects. Brennan’s work is not overtly political, but rather seeks to prompt the viewer into looking with new eyes at the quotidian and to consider the wider forces that seek to manipulate how we think and act.
In the coming months, he will be posting his research into Belfast’s 13 rivers and tributaries in addition to his own images/videos and found facts, maps and myths on this, our website blog, and on social media platforms.
Jonathan will begin with a series of blog entries which will gradually coalesce into approximately a dozen articles on each of Belfast’s rivers.
Jonathan is currently undertaking an ACNI Artist Career Enhancement Scheme Award project with NI Screen and The Strand Arts Centre, which will draw together archive film as well as a new body of work which will be exhibited at PS2 in October 2024.
Image: Under Sandown - Rivers of the East, Jonathan Brennan