Sophie Iremonger

Life and Death at the Pleasure Dome 2 199x191 cm acrylic on canvas

2012-01-25T05:14:00.000-08:00

Recent Expo with Galerie Suvi Lehtinen

2011-12-28T04:39:00.000-08:00

Thistle mania, acrylic on canvas 2011, 199X180 cm

WildDroogs of Templehof, acrylic on canvas,2011,193X193 cm

Opium Monoculture 4, 199X190 cm, 2011,acrylic on canvas

Life and Death at the pleasure dome, 2011,acrylic on canvas,240X170 cm

Opium Monoculture 3, acrylic on canvas 2011, 199X190 cm

Resume:

2012:

Group show: Female patterns, Salon sou de cou cou, 202 Weser Strasse, 6/1/2012- 17/2/2012

2011:

Solo: Sophie Iremonger at GSL projects, 19 Glogauer Strasse, 17/12/2011- 21/12/2011 http://www.galerielehtinen.com/index.php?/gsl-projects/iwajla-klinke/

Group show, FITAX at the Grimm Museum: http://www.tupajumi.com/fitaxberlin/ 2011

Group show: ARTISTS 24SEVEN: 8/9/11-8/3/12 Mercure Hotel Berlin Templehof,HermanStrasse 214.

Group: FEETISH: Salon Sou de Cou Cou, 6/5/11-18/6/11 202 WeserStrasse Berlin

Group: Exploring Animals in Modernism : Animamomoderne @ Kotti-shop
21/1/2011 4 Adalbert Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg

2010:

Group: BIZZARE BIZAAR at PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS 25/11/2010- 18/12/2010 111 Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7, Ireland

Group: BERLINARTOWER Kunstmesse 6/10/2010- 1/11/2010 Kindle Brauerie Neukoln, Kranhalle Sud, Werberliner Strasse 50, Berlin, Neukolln.

Solo: NEONDERTHAL 1/10/2010-23/102010 FabLab, Muskauer Strasse 49, Berlin, Kreuzberg.

Group: CANDY HELL, 4/26/6 2010 Salon Sou de Coucou, Weser Strasse 202,Berlin, Nuekolln.

Group: EMPTY SPACE, 27/7/2010-8/8/2010 Galerie Subsuelo, Lubbener Strasse 18, Berlin,Kreuzberg.

2009:

Solo:PINK Version 2- erotic shop and erotic art space, 26 schonlein Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg.

Solo: PINK VERSION ONE: Erotic shop and erotic art space,
KunsthausTacheles, oranienburger strasse 56, Berlin, Mitte.

2008:

Solo: SHADOW CANDY DUNGEON, Degree show,Granary building, National college of Art and Design,Dublin.

2007:

Group: PLEASURES AND WAYWARD DISTRACTIONS, Broadstone Studios, lower Dominic Street, Dublin.

2006:

Duet: THE IREMONGER/TURPIN EXTRAVAGANZA OF EROTIC ART, the Back Loft, Augustine Street, Dublin.

2005:

Group: QUADRANT AT BELL-TABLE, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick.

Group: THE EXPOSITION TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE, Liberty Hall, Dublin,

Group: ELECTROWURST 2 , Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.

Group: DER DEFASTEN KUNST BUNKER Cultivate Centre, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Multimedia: 18 th July 2011: Interview with ART STARS' Nadja Sayej:http://soundcloud.com/artstars/artstars-interview-with-sophie-iremonger. WEBSITE: http://artstarstv.com/

Art in America: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/atlas-berlin/

Education:

Graduated 2008
BA Honours Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Ireland

Contact:

Sophie Iremonger
Email: sodroog@hotmail.com
web: www.sophieiremonger.blogspot.com

This week:

2011-12-08T03:40:00.000-08:00

Decembers Art in America article by Travis Jeppeson, featuring Stevie Hanley, Iwajla Klinke,Brian Claffin, Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Pietro Spirito and myself: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/atlas-berlin/
"Glamour, the erotic and nostalgia: those are the building blocks of my practice," says painter Sophie Iremonger, who moved to Berlin after finishing art school in her native Dublin in 2008. "I'm not an old master painter," she asserts. "I'm a woman. And I'm here now." This is not empty bombast. Hers is a radical primitivism: she creates delightfully crude landscapes crammed with flowers, animals and an occasional demented human being or two. The works reflect a mastery of the faux folk, faux art-of-the-insane tradition of Dubuffet.

Solo show with Galerie Suvi Lehtinen (GSL projects) http://www.galerielehtinen.com/index.php?/gsl-projects/iwajla-klinke/

Galerie Suvi Lehtinen is proud to host its first Anniversary party at their new Kreuzberg exhibition space GSL Projects.To celebrate GSL Projects is proud to present: a solo exhibition by Berlin based painter SOPHIE IREMONGER + SLOTH COLLECTIVE DJ's + GLYPH BERLIN

Life and death at the pleasure dome, 245X180 cm, acrylic on canvas SOLD

2011-11-29T10:29:00.000-08:00

Mouse family detail

Pleasure Dome detail

Moon bird detail

Elk detail

Kill detail

Cheetah cub detail

Bee/spider detail

Magpie detail

Torn boar detail

Boar family detail

Colourful boar detail

Stripes detail

Badger detail

Hornet nest detail

The entire painting

Hornets mating detail

Boars by a culvert detail

Antler Gulch-40X50 cm,acrylic on canvas please click for larger images AVAILABLE

2011-11-13T06:11:00.001-08:00

Antler Gulch, 40x50, acrylic on canvas

Bambi with secret Lions AVAILABLE

2011-11-13T06:09:00.000-08:00

Bambi with secret Lions-204X195 cm, Acrylic on canvas

Badger detail

Spider detail

Black bird detail

Raptor detail

Butterfly detail

Lion detail

Bambi detail

Skins detail

Tower detail

2011-10-25T11:29:00.000-07:00

Photograph for Exberliner 'survivor' feature, November 2011

Opium mono culture 5 (click image for larger version) 199x190 cm acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE

2011-10-13T12:55:00.000-07:00

Opium Monoculture 5 details (click for larger versions)

2011-10-13T12:49:00.000-07:00

Elk detail

Horizon detail

Flowers detail

Cockchafer detail

Falling horse detail

Horse detail

Horse/elk detail

Coyote detail

Badgers detail

Cheetah stalking detail

Lion kill detail

Rhino detail

Rhino running detail

3 Rhinos detail

The entire painting

Beginning of new small works (40x50cm) AVAILABLE

2011-10-09T05:55:00.000-07:00

Bambi with secret wolves

Opium monoculture 3- or how we deal with shit through the medium of displaced prairie fauna. AVAILABLE

2011-09-16T04:36:00.000-07:00

Opium Monoculture 3, 199X190 cm, acrylic on canvas

Bird and bugs detail

Buzzard Detail

Leopard detail

Moon detail

Caterpillar detail

Radiated antelope detail

Radiated but still running detail

Explosion detail

Pronghorn stampede detail. Below: Pink buds detail.

Restoring the glamour, nostalgia and magic of animals

2011-08-24T02:45:00.000-07:00

I am incompetent so in order to create work I have to solve problems in an original way because the conservative solution is always beyond my capacity. This makes the work exciting, like a retard screaming, and its always on the edge of disaster between forming and falling apart. I am still trying to say what I want to say and only half getting it out between spasms . I hope you find the results interesting and sometimes, beautiful. In these paintings I wanted to create a beautiful and poisonous landscape, and challenge my ability to deal with perspective. The result in a budding half formed amorphous monoculture of opium poppies, Erotic landscapes where the original inhabitants of the prairie struggle to survive, despite impending disaster from giant combine harvester and atomic skies. I guess its all of us and our lives and the way we keep living though we cant get what we need and everything around us poisons us, but we still go

ON. You can scroll down for more images, and click on the images for large view, or even click on the image 2 times for extra large view. it is the artist's intention to communicate her life and vision with all the drama, nostalgia and glamour of the kill. For further explanation of my aesthetic please scroll down. ******************************************************************************Resume: Ongoing: Group show, FITAX at the Grimm Museum: http://www.tupajumi.com/fitaxberlin/ Group show: ARTISTS 24SEVEN: 8/9/11-8/3/12 Mercure Hotel Berlin Templehof,HermanStrasse 214. Exhibitions: 2011: Group: FEETISH: Salon Sou de Cou Cou, 6/5/11-18/6/11 202 WeserStrasse Berlin Group: Exploring Animals in Modernism : Animamomoderne @ Kotti-shop 21/1/2011 4 Adalbert Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg 2010: Group: BIZZARE BIZAAR at PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS 25/11/2010- 18/12/2010 111 Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7, Ireland Group: BERLINARTOWER Kunstmesse 6/10/2010- 1/11/2010 Kindle Brauerie Neukoln, Kranhalle Sud, Werberliner Strasse 50, Berlin, Neukolln. Solo: NEONDERTHAL 1/10/2010-23/102010 FabLab, Muskauer Strasse 49, Berlin, Kreuzberg. Group: CANDY HELL, 4/26/6 2010 Salon Sou de Coucou, Weser Strasse 202,Berlin, Nuekolln. Group: EMPTY SPACE, 27/7/2010-8/8/2010 Galerie Subsuelo, Lubbener Strasse 18, Solo: Berlin,Kreuzberg. 2009: PINK Version 2- erotic shop and erotic art space, 26 schonlein Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg. Solo: PINK VERSION ONE: Erotic shop and erotic art space, KunsthausTacheles, oranienburger strasse 56, Berlin, Mitte. 2008: Solo: SHADOW CANDY DUNGEON, Degree show,Granary building, National college of Art and Design,Dublin. 2007: Group: PLEASURES AND WAYWARD DISTRACTIONS, Broadstone Studios, lower Dominic Street, Dublin. 2006: Duet: THE IREMONGER/TURPIN EXTRAVAGANZA OF EROTIC ART, the Back Loft, Augustine Street, Dublin. 2005: Group: QUADRANT AT BELL-TABLE, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick. Group: THE EXPOSITION TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE, Liberty Hall, Dublin, Group: ELECTROWURST 2 , Prenzlauerberg, Berlin. Group: DER DEFASTEN KUNST BUNKER Cultivate Centre, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin. Multimedia: 18 th July 2011: Interview with ART STARS' Nadja Sayej:http://soundcloud.com/artstars/artstars-interview-with-sophie-iremonger. WEBSITE: http://artstarstv.com/ Education: Graduated 2008 BA Honours Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Ireland Contact: Sophie Iremonger Email: sodroog@hotmail.com web: www.sophieiremonger.blogspot.com

2011-08-14T05:59:00.000-07:00

Fire Pheasants,101X76 cm, acrylic on canvas 2011

Spike Wolf,218X100 cm, acrylic on canvas 2011 SOLD

Opium Poppy, 40X50 cm, acrylic on canvas 2011

Opium Monoculture 2 with displaced prairie fauna, acrylic on canvas, 2011, 213X203 cm AVAILABLE

2011-08-14T05:58:00.000-07:00

opium poppy with moth,2011,73X58cm,acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE

Grimreaper, 2011,101x76cm,acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE

Grass-skull2,2011,100X80cm,acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE

Grass-skull1,2011,100X80cm,acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE

Elk calf caught in fence

2011-06-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

Why bother?

2011-06-20T07:00:00.001-07:00

Please scroll down for more images of paintings

SO WHY BOTHER?

The wild is not a perpetually flushing toilet nor an ever filling food-bag- it is an intricate web of other nations and our place within it it, yours and mine, past and future, is what this is about. The glamour. nostalgia and erotica of our animal heritage is what I invite you to explore. Is man a parasite or still a great hunter?

About:

Sophie Iremonger:

Born: 1983 Dublin, Ireland,
Lives: in Berlin since october 2008
Educated: BA Fine Art painting, NCAD, National college of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8: http://www.ncad.ie/

Fusing high-fashion magazine imagery with animalistic idolatry, a primitive folk-art popism that reflects NOW succinctly but rejects the high-tech in favour of a hands-on approach. A glossy ultra modern cave painting, this work perverts core Pop art techniques whilst retaining the Pop-art mass production aesthetic and the movements desire for a fresh new art of now. A eulogy to luscious trash values combined with an energetic franz marcesque delight in animal forms, Seriously primordial yet frothed with the artificial flavor of mass media emphera- these mismatching parts create an Erotic Art Frankenstein

C.V:

2011:

Group: 17/06/2011-18/06/2011 Feetish exhibition, Galerie Salon Sou de Cou Cou, Weser strasse 202, Berlin Neukolln

Group: 27/3/2011- present: ongoing group show participant at Galerie St St.

Group: Exploring Animals in Modernism : Animamamomoderne @ Kotti-shop
21/1/2011 4 Adalbert Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg
One Night only show

2010:

Group: BIZZARE BIZAAR at PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS 25/11/2010- 18/12/2010 111 Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7, Ireland

Group: BERLINARTOWER Kunstmesse 6/10/2010- 1/11/2010 Kindle Brauerie Neukoln, Kranhalle Sud, Werberliner Strasse 50, Berlin, Neukolln.

Solo: NEONDERTHAL 1/10/2010-23/102010 FabLab, Muskauer Strasse 49, Berlin, Kreuzberg.

Group: CANDY HELL, 4/26/6 2010 Salon Sou de Coucou, Weser Strasse 202,Berlin, Nuekolln.

Group: EMPTY SPACE, 27/7/2010-8/8/2010 Galerie Subsuelo, Lubbener Strasse 18, Berlin,Kreuzberg.

2009:

Solo:PINK Version 2- erotic shop and erotic art space, 26 schonlein Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg.

Solo: PINK VERSION ONE: Erotic shop and erotic art space,
KunsthausTacheles, oranienburger strasse 56, Berlin, Mitte.

2008:

Solo: SHADOW CANDY DUNGEON, Degree show,Granary building, National college of Art and Design,Dublin.

2007:

Group: PLEASURES AND WAYWARD DISTRACTIONS, Broadstone Studios, lower Dominic Street, Dublin.

2006:

Duet: THE IREMONGER/TURPIN EXTRAVAGANZA OF EROTIC ART, the Back Loft, Augustine Street, Dublin.

2005:

Group: QUADRANT AT BELL-TABLE, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick.

Group: THE EXPOSITION TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE, Liberty Hall, Dublin,

Group: ELECTROWURST 2 , Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.

Group: DER DEFASTEN KUNST BUNKER Cultivate Centre, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Education:

Graduated 2008
BA Honours Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Ireland: http://www.ncad.ie/

Contact:

Sophie Iremonger
website: www.sophieiremonger.blogspot.com
Email: sodroog@hotmail.com
Phone: 017635473592(deutchland)

Details from Opium Monoculture 2 with displaced prairie fauna- please click on photo for larger image

2011-06-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

Pronghorn Antelope detail from Opium monoculture with displaced prairie fauna

Pheasant detail from the same

Sphinx Moth detail from the same

Bush cricket detail from the same

Lost buffalo detail from the same

Opium Monoculture 1 AVAILABLE

2011-05-28T06:45:00.000-07:00

Detail

The whole view

Please click on image TWICE for full size image. Opium poppy field, 213X203 cm,Acrylic on canvas, 2011

Opium poppies

2011-05-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

Catamount AVAILABLE

2011-04-30T07:18:00.000-07:00

Catamount 101cm X 76 cm acrylic on canvas, 2011

MAKING A FROZEN NEON MOMENT TANGIBLE (click on pictures for full images)

2011-03-11T10:04:00.003-08:00

Storm Puma, 150X150 2011, Acrylic on canvas, SOLD

Thistle Madness. 2011.2 metres, Acrylic on canvas- 150 euro per 140X150 cm mounted piece

Apocalypse Bubble Car, 2011, 201X147 cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2.340 Euros

Apocalypse Bubble Car, puma detail

Apocalypse Bubble Car, Menacing bear detail

Apocalypse Bubble Car, Tyre detail

Apocalypse Bubble Car, engine detail

THE PERPETUAL KALEIDOSCOPIC PAINTING:

... Compressing the distance between historic and prehistoric time. Mammoths in Central park, sabretooth tigers in Templehof airport. Breaking down the idea of painting as finite moment:
So I make paintings with an eye to playful destruction:
On canvas, large paintings are created as a cohesive narrative work, then they are cut up, individually mounted on 40X50cm canvas' reassembled as a whole and hung on the wall. The paintings can be hung in original order or presented in a disordered way, inviting the viewer to assemble the story for themselves. The paintings can be puzzles, the paintings can be pro time or anti time. Make your own time. Each piece can be sold individually, the painting can be sold as a whole piece too. For each piece that is sold I re-create the missing segment and replace it back into the painting - an everlasting changing kaleidoscopic painting- I want to share the concept of painting as a self-renewing process, an ongoing interactive growth. As time passes, the nature of the painting changes subtly, eventually it could be an entirely different painting to the one it started out as. Hence we see that time does not limit the painting to existing at one point only- unlike the conventional time-scale in relation to pictures, these works are never finished and continue to react and change in response to YOU- like public access T.V.

RESTORING THE MAGIC OF ANIMALS:

Many of us over-look the fact that until 12 thousand years ago -(a mere blink in the evolutionary eye) Europe was populated by a
megafauna comparable to that of the great plains of Africa. Mammoth, Lion and vast herds of various ungulates inhabited tundra, plain and forest in astounding diversity. These animals were the absolute obsession of our ice-age ancestors, giving everything these people required to survive. Humans absolutely depended on and were deeply connected to the rest of the animal world. The cave paintings of Chauvet and Lascaux in France are testament to this fact. the same powerful and dangerous animals are depicted again and again and again- buffalo, elephants, lions, deer. In particular, humans have had an almost sensuous physical intimacy with such large species as buffalo and elephants(mammoths) for thousands of years- following the herds, knowing individual animals from birth to death. What has happened?
Does the present conservation focus on such
'charismatic megafauna' represent a vestigial element of our ancient relationship with such imposing creatures? Simultaneously magic and everyday, Large animals were the heart of our forbears universe. This situation continued for many thousands of years until, put in oversimplified terms, increasing human population and decreasing game forced people into agriculture. With the domestication of the wild ancestors of such animals as pigs (wild boar), cows (Auroch cattle) and sheep (Mouflon), attitudes towards non-human life encountered a drastic change. No longer were great autonomous beasts seen as beings to be reckoned with. Humans still lived cheek by cheek with other species, sharing food, diseases and living space, (many common human diseases evolved at this time from maladies present in other species) but a breach had come between, and instead of being part of the fabric, western man was now permanently and unalterably shredding it and has been ever since.

SO WHY BOTHER?

The wild is not a perpetually flushing toilet nor an ever filling food-bag- it is an intricate web of other nations and our place within it it, yours and mine, past and future, is what this is about. The glamour. nostalgia and erotica of our animal heritage is what I invite you to explore. Is man a parasite or still a great hunter?

PRINTING:

Using a printing method I discovered myself- A process involving acrylic binder and photocopies, enables me to create a level of realism with respects to the details of my paintings that would otherwise be out of my grasp- I use this printing technique on the parts of my paintings that I do not enjoy and have little interest in drawing but the inclusion of which is important in communicating what I want to say- ie, Chain link fences, car engines,furniture, aeroplanes,tennis court lights, headlamps, door handles- These, unlike living plants and beings, are of no interest to me as far as laboriously copying them is concerned- so instead, I print the man made details. There is a sense they are invading eachother, and this contrast between 'natural' and 'manufactured' within the work interests me deeply. The flowers animals and other components are, as a rule, but not exclusively, hand drawn/painted
I use colours that are super natural- I use neon and acrylic because I want to create a scene that is 6 times more intense than reality- like a night mare or dream, or a in time of great stress, emotion, tension- like when a lion kills. Colours seem brighter at these times and time seems to stand still for us. My challenge is to balance detail with space, saturation with sparsity and energy with stillness- it is a challenge I take on again and again and inevitably fall short of, so I keep trying to capture these times of intensity and stillness. I am always making new trails for myself, painting is like hunting-chasing down a new idea and mounting its head on my wall.

RE-WILDING

2011-01-04T11:35:00.000-08:00

paintings exploring present and past attitudes to the large extinct native fauna of Europe and America and the reaction engendered by the possibility of the return of such fauna.

Practically speaking, A series of vivid colourful paintings inspired by ancient cave art depicting Pleistoscene animals in expected and unexpected habitats. A colliding power-play between ancient and modern landscapes, ice age tundra juxtaposed with the wasteland of an abandoned airport.

Also, twisting predator prey relations- in an out of wack world human beings co-opt all positions on the food chain-so I show a pack of me,
Hunting an elk wolf style. Are we part of or parasite upon, the 'natural world'?

Sophie Iremonger:

Fusing high-fashion magazine imagery with animalistic idolatry, a primitive folk-art popism that reflects NOW succinctly but rejects the high-tech in favour of a hands-on approach. A glossy ultra modern cave painting, this work perverts core Pop art techniques whilst retaining the Pop-art mass production aesthetic and the movements desire for a fresh new art of now. A eulogy to luscious trash values combined with an energetic franz marcesque delight in animal forms, Seriously primordial yet frothed with the artificial flavor of mass media emphera- these mismatching parts create an Erotic Art Frankenstein. Iremonger has always manifested a strong fascination with the natural world, producing art saturated with charismatic Mega-Fauna: it is the artist's intention to communicate her life and vision with all the drama, nostalgia and glamour of the kill.

Resume:

2011:

Group: Feetish, 5 May 2011, Salon sou de cou cou. Weser Strasse 202

Group: Ongoing exhibition,Gallery St St, Sanderstrasse 26,

Group: Exploring Animals in Modernism : Animamomoderne @ Kotti-shop

21/1/2011 4 Adalbert Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg

2010:

Group: BIZZARE BIZAAR at PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS 25/11/2010- 18/12/2010 111 Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7, Ireland

Group: BERLINARTOWER Kunstmesse 6/10/2010- 1/11/2010 Kindle Brauerie Neukoln, Kranhalle Sud, Werberliner Strasse 50, Berlin, Neukolln.

Solo: NEONDERTHAL 1/10/2010-23/102010 FabLab, Muskauer Strasse 49, Berlin, Kreuzberg.

Group: CANDY HELL, 4/26/6 2010 Salon Sou de Coucou, Weser Strasse 202,Berlin, Nuekolln.

Group: EMPTY SPACE, 27/7/2010-8/8/2010 Galerie Subsuelo, Lubbener Strasse 18, Berlin,Kreuzberg.

2009:

Solo:PINK Version 2- erotic shop and erotic art space, 26 schonlein Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg.

Solo: PINK VERSION ONE: Erotic shop and erotic art space,

KunsthausTacheles, oranienburger strasse 56, Berlin, Mitte.

2008:

Solo: SHADOW CANDY DUNGEON, Degree show,Granary building, National college of Art and Design,Dublin.

2007:

Group: PLEASURES AND WAYWARD DISTRACTIONS, Broadstone Studios, lower Dominic Street, Dublin.

2006:

Duet: THE IREMONGER/TURPIN EXTRAVAGANZA OF EROTIC ART, the Back Loft, Augustine Street, Dublin.

2005:

Group: QUADRANT AT BELL-TABLE, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick.

Group: THE EXPOSITION TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE, Liberty Hall, Dublin,

Group: ELECTROWURST 2 , Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.

Group: DER DEFASTEN KUNST BUNKER Cultivate Centre, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Education:

Graduated 2008

BA Honours Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Ireland

Contact:

Sophie Iremonger

Email: sodroog@hotmail.com

Phone: 017635473592(deutchland)

Wild Droogs version 2 . 193X193 cm- to be chopped up into individually mounted paintings.AVAILABLE

Out of balance. Feb 2011		Acrylic on canvas	114X78 cm
AVAILABLE

Wild Droogs in TempleHof feb. 2011 Acrylic on Canvas.

213X274 cm AVAILABLE

Rewilding version 2

213X274 cm Feb 2011. SOLD

Happy hunting Ground Jan 2011

Acrylic on canvas

112X77 cm s AVAILABLE

Rewilding version 1 2011, 213X274 cm, Acrylic on canvas, AVAILABLE

Welcome

2010-10-18T14:57:00.000-07:00

Thank-you for visiting my blog. Please scroll down for a comprehensive view of recent works.If you have a question I would be delighted to answer it ...so do not hesitate. Mail me at: sodroog@hotmail.com

For details of my resume please scroll down towards the bottom of the page

Here are photos from my new collection-
a series of 30 paintings exploring the effect of nuclear radiation on wilderness .
This series starts with depictions of 'untouched' nature -
as it progresses the animals and enviroment become increasingly
changed by radioative fall-out.
All paintings in the series are 50X40cm acrylic on canvas and they all cost 150 euros

Su with Horses SOLD

Weak Elk SOLD

Wolves fighting SOLD

Nuclear wolves SOLD

Wolves Hunting Blue Jay

Wolves testing Elk

Exhausted Elk SOLD

Aerial Hunt SOLD

Atomic Giant Elk SOLD

Strong Elk SOLD

Aerial Hunt 2 SOLD

Atomic Pleistoscene

Below: 2 samples of new work from the 'Multi-flower' series. The 'Multi-flowers' are about wild animals successfully adapting to a new habitat: home interiors.

Blue and Rose Leopard Multi -flower paintings,

Acrylic on canvas 2010

Both 98X72 cm.

SOLD

Below: Sophie Iremonger at Berlin Art Tower 2010

Exhibitions:

2010-10-18T14:51:00.000-07:00

Below: photos from my exhibition NEONderthal, that took place between the 1st and 20th October 2010, at new project space THE FABLAB 49 Muskauer strasse. Many thanks to Cindy Wunderbar

About the exhibition:

NEONDERTHAL:

Contemporary Erotic Cave paintings.

Vacuum of sterile interior design invaded by ancien regime of venerated mega-fauna. Beastly nostalgia of small-jawed Homo to return to state of mighty Erectus. Imprisoned by lipsticks we long for a fantasy of the natural life. The smash-up between exterior and interior- a series of homo-erotic windows, glass shattering between inside and outside, wild and tame. Within these works I presented a synthesis between the neon of our present and the weight of our animal past-

an inchoate new neon wilderness where man/beast collide in an endless power-play. By the end of painting this series of works, I had found out the answer to an interesting question that had wanted answering:

Just how different am I from a cave man?

And the answer, to my dismay, was VERY. The way I see these animals comes with a 21st century baggage-it is impossible to paint like those ancient men of Lascaux , though I am homo sapien too. And we are homo sapien too.

And here is an over-view of NEONderthal :

Wolf Window with detail 2010, acrylic on canvas

65X104 cm. 600 euros

Snake Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

65X104 cm.

Puma Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

65X104 cm.

Prairie Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

65X104 cm.

Mouflon Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

55X103 cm. SOLD

Lynx Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

57X102cm.

Lion Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

59X93 cm.

Horse Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

65X104 cm.

Cassowary Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

60X103 cm.

SwampWindow 2010, acrylic on canvas

72X98 cm.

Rhino Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

63X104 cm.

Auroch Window 2010, acrylic on canvas

60X98 cm.

Hes Just playing, 2010, acrylic on canvas,139X147 cm

Dinner Smash Up, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 139X147cm

Fleur De Leopard, 2010, acrylic on canvas,

139X147 cm,

RESUME:

EXHIBITIONS:

2010:

Group: BIZZARE BIZAAR at PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS 25/11/2010- 18/12/2010 111 Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7, Ireland

Group: BERLINARTOWER Kunstmesse 6/10/2010- 1/11/2010 Kindle Brauerie Neukoln, Kranhalle Sud, Werberliner Strasse 50, Berlin, Neukolln.

Solo: NEONDERTHAL 1/10/2010-23/102010 FabLab, Muskauer Strasse 49, Berlin, Kreuzberg.

Group: CANDY HELL, 4/26/6 2010 Salon Sou de Coucou, Weser Strasse 202,Berlin, Nuekolln.

Group: EMPTY SPACE, 27/7/2010-8/8/2010 Galerie Subsuelo, Lubbener Strasse 18, Berlin,Kreuzberg.

2009:

Solo:PINK Version 2- erotic shop and erotic art space, 26 schonlein Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg.

Solo: PINK VERSION ONE: Erotic shop and erotic art space,

KunsthausTacheles, oranienburger strasse 56, Berlin, Mitte.

2008:

Solo: SHADOW CANDY DUNGEON, Degree show,Granary building, National college of Art and Design,Dublin.

2007:

Group: PLEASURES AND WAYWARD DISTRACTIONS, Broadstone Studios, lower Dominic Street, Dublin.

2006:

Duet: THE IREMONGER/TURPIN EXTRAVAGANZA OF EROTIC ART, the Back Loft, Augustine Street, Dublin.

2005:

Group: QUADRANT AT BELL-TABLE, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick.

Group: THE EXPOSITION TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE, Liberty Hall, Dublin,

Group: ELECTROWURST 2 , Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.

Group: DER DEFASTEN KUNST BUNKER Cultivate Centre, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

EDUCATION:

Graduated 2008

BA Honours Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Ireland

Contact:

Sophie Iremonger

Email: sodroog@hotmail.com

Phone: 017635473592(deutchland)

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