Moving Through Things traces sequences of movement across three sites: Slievenamon mountain, South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC Gallery), and a performance pathway to the STAC Chapel.
Moving Through Things traces sequences of movement across three sites: Slievenamon mountain, South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC Gallery), and a performance pathway to the STAC Chapel.
Opening 14th November 6-8pm
Performance – Saturday 15th and 22nd November, 1pm. (Starting at gallery - no booking required).
Moving Through Things traces sequences of movement across three sites: Slievenamon mountain, South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC Gallery), and a performance pathway to the STAC Chapel. Drawing on the mountain’s historic cursus, the work explores how motion accumulates meaning, absorbs time, and dissolves boundaries between self, place, and ritual. The exhibition presents walking, passage, and movement as forms of perception, connecting landscape, gallery, and audience through rhythm and sequence.
Elaine Grainger is a multidisciplinary artist living in Dublin. Her practice is a study of time with the objects or spaces she gathers and inhabits. Her conceptual interest focuses on the haptic memory that is embedded in the structures she encounters, letting her develop a personal relationship with them. She is interested in the partiality of her constructions subtly interrupting the common narrative of complete and finished that’s associated with finalised exhibitions. The audience are invited to question the contradictions between the unresolved elements and occupy the remaining gaps, sharing in a provisional permanence, to discover uncertainty and witness presence.
A material, an action, a space or a thought, Grainger’s practice is a monument to the silent communication of objects, examining their social life that is typically reduced to mere functionality. Whether it be immediate or prolonged, her practice reflects the very intimate consumption of time, seeking to meticulously extract and memorialise the invisible tethers and temporary intentions that surrounds us.
Grainger returned to education and completed an MFA in The National College of Art and Design in 2018. Recent exhibitions include: Echo Mapping, a collaborative project with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard, PINK, Stockport, UK (2025); Kengo Kuma’s Cabin, performance/presentation, Saiko Neon, Saiko, Japan (2024); HOLDING ON Lightly, solo exhibition,The Lab Gallery, Dublin (2023); and You observe I observed, collaboration Juxtapose Art Fair, Denmark (2023). Shortlisted for RDS Visual Arts Awards (2018), winner of RDS Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award (2018), selected for RHA Peer Residency Award (2019), Highly Commended Award Highlane Gallery (2020).
