Pallas Projects/Studios in Dublin are currently featuring work by artist Neva Elliott—Notes on Being Human is the sixth exhibition in Pallas's 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme. View a gallery above.
Notes on Being Human brings together reparative acts of making as part of the post-bereavement healing process through the artist's own experiences of loss.
Elliott creates work based on and in her life through extrapolating action from the awareness of the fragile and contingent nature of being human. Using coping mechanisms and transparent vulnerability as the basis of making, the artist uses herself as a subject, content, and non-fictional performer in a lyrical conceptualism that blurs art and life.
While working from her individual experience, she attempts to expand beyond the autobiographical to communicate aspects of a shared humanity that still hold some taboo – death, bereavement, and mental health. Individual pieces are formed through this living as material, resulting in by-products of generative activity and autonomous works across sculpture, ceramics, textiles, photography, text, performative gesture, and artefacts.
Notes On Being Human is at Pallas Studios, Dublin until Saturday 28th September - find out more here.
Images: Louis Haugh
