Sinéad Kempley longing for a bond Wooden pallet, LED lights, plasticine, scatter granules, rubber seal, bioplastic with agar, foam loose, foam dense, steel ring, jesmonite, solidified slime with…
Oct 22, 2021
I bent and welded a steel loop with fixing plate in the metal workshop. Oct 22, 2021
Oct 22, 2021
Added heat sensitive pigment to rubber casting. Changes from black to transparent with room temperature or touch. It takes a while to change back to black after activated….
Aug 25, 2021
As part of an installation, I would like to make this undulating waxy sheet at a larger scale to act as a decoy to hide screens/smaller works around….
Plastic (I think) found on beach with burrows made from some kind of sea creature/worm. Squished wax with ink. Aug 25, 2021
Photos from a pilot art programme I have been working on with Choices4Growth (a Berwick based children’s mental health organisation) over the last few months. The aim of…
Sounds of Making by Surface Matters, produced by Rhiannon Hunter, is an audio exchange project with four artists – Ema Mano Epps, Sinead Kempley, Katherine Smith and Polly…
practices portfolio submission Apr 2, 2021
Apr 2, 2021
Photograph of sand dune roots printed on silk. Bioplastic worms hidden in holes of bricks. Mar 29, 2021
Not quite there yet – trying to make a black liquid ooze upwards. I wanted to make it come up through a grate but I think its not…
Possible way to include a photo – wrapped up/pinned down. When the wind blows on it, it flaps up and down. polystyrene balls held on by static to…
May incorporate when I have access to riso/print/fabric printing facilities Mar 28, 2021
Finally managed to do an animation in Blender using an external hard drive. Photo is rendered in Cycles and the animation is rendered in Eevee. Mar 11, 2021
Mar 9, 2021
First test with model gallery based on The Gymnasium Gallery in Berwick. Feb 24, 2021
Found a strange bit of plastic on the beach (perhaps once part of a plant pot) and have covered with a sheet of white dental wax. Waiting for…
They are less slimy and more tacky – holds more shape and sticks to itself. Feb 10, 2021
As I poured the liquid bioplastic into a mushroom plastic packaging, it melted and warped the plastic which created indents in the bioplastic when it set. I…
I wanted to play around with two liquids mixing/boundaries breaking down I used the wax sculptures I’d made with glue and soap but I think it is more…
shrivelled bioplastic on rectangular box (planning to make out of lead sheet) with sound of foam and bubbling sand. The strobe light within the box is sound sensitive…
I have been collecting bricks that wash up at Spittal beach as a possible material for building a structure to house projections or sculptures. Apparently this beach and…
Made for Abbas Zahedi’s workshop on Nothing. Thinking about the way the sea foam (unknown mix of materials/possible chemicals frothed into a bubbly material) moves in reaction to…
If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit…
I walked back to the hole to re-photograph with my camera (other image was a phone photo and I tested printing at A0 and it was pretty pixelated)…
A possible structure to hold smaller wax sculptures – I’m not sure it works with them just placed on top. Perhaps some kind of larger structure built around…
Sinead Kempley – Artist Statement My sculptural work is designed to be held in the palm of your hand and interacted with – arranged, rolled, balanced, wrapped up,…
Oct 4, 2020
Made this while listening to Collective Observations: Tim Gill talking about designing urban spaces which prioritise children’s exploration and independence. If spacing is standardised in play space then…
