Yvonne McGuinness Biography
Yvonne McGuinness is an Irish visual artist best known for video installation and print. Her art has been shown in Ireland and the UK. She has made several short films: This is Between Us (2011), Charlie’s Place (2012), and Procession (2012).
Yvonne McGuinness Career
McGuinness is a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate of the Royal College of Art in London who has traditionally studied art. Additionally, she does Film, performance, sculpture, textiles, sound, and writing. Through public, performative interventions, McGuinness has built a practice that helps people and groups use their words to question systems of power and to “act out” in them. Moreover, over the past six months, McGuinness has worked with kids at Kilkenny’s St. John’s Senior School and the Equinox Theatre Ensemble. His work has been based on teamwork and diversity. McGuinness built new connections, which are the foundation of her work, and used them to make two new films.
McGuinness holds practices in the ruins of Callan Augustinian Priory, which creates a film, almost holographic atmosphere with many layers. Energies change, limits fall apart, and connections that weren’t expected happen. An official starts to speak, but people in the crowd interrupt him. The audience stops being an inactive observer and starts taking part; all energies, real or imagined, come together in a riot of color, but in the end, the carpet gets rolled up when the building’s shadow changes and “reality” returns.
In “Schoolyard,” a bunch of kids make a “scene” in 10 minutes without planning it. There is a connection, which means that something comes from nothing and holds the weight of the world. Misfortune, tragedy, and comedy all happen at the same time in a biblical scene that reminds kids of a holy past that is still alive in their minds.
There are pictures of each person in the chaos, and one girl yells through a megaphone in Ukrainian, “We were born for this!” The films talk to each other, with one coming from a religious ruin and the other from a playground. They test and eventually go beyond the limits of their institutional settings. These “rehearsals of readiness” create absurd scenes of preparation where chaos and ritual, as well as emergencies, come together in energizing acts of group momentum.
New freeform, large-scale fabric collages hang in the gallery. Moreover, they contain collaged fabric elements from the artist’s growing collection of materials for his or her expanded practice. The artist thinks of these collections as things she can touch, tear, paint, sew, unpick, and fold away.
Throughout the gallery, a collection of wearable silk works with removed parts hangs. For example, a statue is missing its head, and an altar is missing its church. Set against a chroma-green background, these objects lose their meaning. Additionally, hanging costumes and works on paper serve as starting points for the performance process. The different parts of the exhibition are connected by a soundscape. A pianist practices a melody while watchers continue to play out in the chaos of their times.
Yvonne McGuinness Age
McGuinness was born on October 12, 1972, in Kilkenny, Ireland. She is 51 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates his birthday on the 12th of October every year.
Yvonne McGuinness Height and Weight
McGuinness stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 57 kgs (125 lbs).
Yvonne McGuinness Family
McGuinness was born in Kilkenny, Ireland to Gay McGuinness (father) and her mother whose name has not yet been disclosed to the public. Additionally, she has an uncle named John McGuinness who is an Irish Fianna Fail politician.
Yvonne McGuinness Husband
McGuinness is married to Cillian Murphy, an Irish actor. Yvonne and Cillian met in the 1990s while Cillian was working on Disco Pigs, a show that became a movie in 2001. Soon after they met, Yvonne went on an 18-month tour with Cillian and his fellow Disco Pigs castmates. The two tied the knot in 2004 and were blessed with two sons; Aran Murphy (born 2007) and Malachy Murphy (born 2005) both of whom are also actors. The family currently resides in Dublin, Ireland.
Murphy was making the war film The Wind that Shakes the Barley in 2006 while McGuinness was pregnant with Malachy. Later, Murphy told The Guardian in an interview that making the movie was one of his favorite times as an actor, in part because he got to know McGuinness so well.
Yvonne McGuinness Net Worth
McGuinness has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through her career as a visual artist.
Yvonne McGuinness Salary
McGuinness earns a salary of about $50,000-$100,000 annually.
Yvonne McGuinness Wedding
McGuinness and her husband Cillian Murphy dated for eight years before tying the knot in 2004. Their wedding ceremony took place in her father’s vineyard in Provence, France. They did not share any pictures of their wedding on their social media platforms.
Yvonne McGuinness Plastic Surgery
There have been no reports about McGuinness having plastic surgery. However, this information will be updated when available.
Yvonne McGuinness Movies and Films
She has made several short films including This is Between Us (2011), Charlie’s Place (2012), and Procession (2012).
Yvonne McGuinness Art
McGuinness and Rhona Byrne created the Central Field project which was a brief live-land art piece. It was commissioned by the “In Context” art program in South County Dublin. This project took place in Adamstown, a suburban “new town” in South County Dublin that has been built since 2005. The artists found this blank piece of land that was supposed to be Adamstown’s “commercial or district town center” but was fenced off and out of reach for locals.
During this stage of development, the Central Field art project was a response to this spot and its surroundings. The artists worked with Castlethorn Development for over a year to get entry and work on-site. In February 2018, the artists moved a container studio to the spot and worked out a deal to put a gate in the fence so that the public could access it.
The artists lived there full-time for six months, from February to July 2018. Additionally, in March 2018, the artists put on a Live Land Artwork where they performed on the land every day in response to it and worked on making a large-scale land artwork out of debris from the Adamstown development and using tools, labor, and knowledge from the active building site next door.
The artists made a lot of live and instant responses, actions, earthworks, public events, workshops, performances, interventions, gatherings, and activities over six months. They worked together with people in the area, schools, and neighborhood groups. The goal was to turn this land into a place where people could meet and talk about ideas like change and potential land use, private and public ownership, intrinsic value, materiality, responsibility, and our own and others’ power. The works of art are carved into The Central Field and will stay there until the land is turned into the center of the business area.