Christina Mullan Professional Practice
Christina is an arts writer and researcher based in Donegal. Her writing focuses on the philosophy of painting, aesthetics, artist's materials, the work of the studio and the sublime of the everyday. |
Education
September 2010 - 2013: Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway: MA by Research, Critical Theory of Art 'Permanent Light Green, the Stumblebum and the Show-Off: The Historical Sublime, Philip Guston and Sophie Calle' September 2009 - 2010 Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway: BA (Hons) Fine Art September 2006 - 2009 Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway: BA Fine Art
Biography
Christina Mullan is an artist and visual arts writer based in Donegal. She holds a Masters in Critical Theory and a Degree in Fine Art. Current research examines the role of materials, elements and the processes by which contemporary paintings are made and the effect of these upon the resultant art object. She was the founding member of the Branch Collective - a research and practice collective whose collaboration created open dialogues between a range of contrasting and complementary strands of research created projects. They broke new academic ground exhibiting at the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, presenting at the European Society for Aesthetics Conference 2015 and speaking at the 'The Relevance of Painting: Awakening Beauty’ The Crowther-Oblak Collection of Victorian Art at the National Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mullan has written extensively for visual arts publications including CIRCA Magazine, Visual Arts Ireland Newsheet and Ladybeard Magazine. Key elements in her work focuses on the notion of the sublime, materiality/substance, aesthetics and the phenomenology of the painted image. |