Elaine Flannery artist

Elaine Flannery is an Irish artist currently based in Cardiff. She is concerned with the materiality of the materials that she employs; their potency or potential as mediums. Whether it is the pooling of ink as it dries on cartridge paper or the print left on raw clay as the print is registered upon it. She is interested in how her actions can suggest an encapsulation of an action or event.

Elaine explores her practice through problem finding; she formulates questions and examines them. Problem finding is a divergent activity, so it is more conducive to generating creative ideas than convergent thinking as convergent thinking usually results in one solution.
She says:

"The advantage of this approach is that in forming my questions I can focus on a specific area but, I don’t have to commit to a single idea. If during the course of the creative process I discover more interesting questions I am free to explore these as well."