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Stephen Rennicks
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Inga Santere
STEPHEN RENNICKS (b. 1972) is a conceptual artist based in Co. Leitrim, Ireland. Notable works to date include the year long 'Junk out of Context'(2004 - 2005) which explored the audio and video stock of Dublin charity shops; 'Trains for the Blind'(2004), a sound piece released in conjunction with the ESB Dublin Fringe festival; a six month 'Secret Residency' at Dublin Airport during 2005; 'Imagine Black Lough' (2006) installation at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim and his debut solo show 'With & Without Context' at Mantua Project, Co. Roscommon in 2007. He most recently completed his three year in the making land art piece '666 777 888' in 2008. He is currently working on a new work entitled 'Deeper into Nothing' which follows on directly from this project.
He has explored issues such as time, illusion and objectivity so far in his work. He is also interested in art in public spaces and many of his works continue to subtly exist there without permission. He uses everyday materials not normally associated with art practice in his work, including free template websites, as part of an aesthetic that aims to demystify the medium for the viewer in the hope of getting more quickly past the how of his work and onto the why. However, the message is always paradoxically designed to be multi-layered beyond its surface meaning.
“Rennicks is an intriguing conceptual artist who has proved himself willing to invest time and energy in lengthy projects that are hardly likely to attain any public profile at all, but do have the potential to connect with an audience on a one-to-one basis, in an almost clandestine, underground way.”Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times
Email him at rennicksstephen at eircom dot net
The following videos are documentation only and not complete works in themselves.
'Dreams Never Ending' (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E00szkApli4
'Junk out of Context' (2004 - 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F03Np2AHOp8
'Flux' (2009) sound piece with video. An exercise I did to sum up change in relation to Ireland's current economic difficulties. I've always been very interested in the seeming randomness of numbers and chaos theory. Chaos theory itself actually came from the study of weather statistics and trying to look for patterns in it. For this piece I see these randomly generated numbers from our weather stations rather like data from a stock exchange, only its weather effects people in economic and social ways. Nothing ever stays the same. Coastal report and images are from 9th March 2009.
'Pattern Recognition' (2008 - 2009) This is a selection of digital images from an ongoing project of mine. I began working on it in 2008, it may yet evolve into a larger installation style piece with more media. With this project I am concentrating on unintentionally created manmade patterns. Amongst other things I am interested here in how the unconscious may be trying to express itself in unexpected ways. While the images are of course highly subjective to my own framing, they do offer a slightly more objective view of the world.
'666 777 888' (2008) three year long land art project. http://www/freewebs.com/666777888
'Black Lough' (2006) http://www.freewebs.com/blacklough
'Costello Chapel' (2005) http://www.freewebs.com/costellochapel
'Secret Residency' (2005) http://www.freewebs.com/airportresidency
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