Richard Forrest is a contemporary visual artist working in sculpture and digital media, currently based in the Cork, Ireland. In 2011 he graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design and in 2019 completed a Masters in ArtScience in The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Richard has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA in both solo and group shows. Most recent achievements include an artists bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Cork County Council, a residency in Eindhoven, exhibiting in Los Angeles and being selected for the 2017 Royal Hibernian Academies FUTURES exhibition. He has also received numerous commissions from institutions such as Facebook, for their Dublin based European Headquarters, and the Glucksman Gallery (Cork) and currently he is on the board of directors for The Visual Artists Ireland.
Statement
Forrest is an emerging artist working in sculpture & new-media, exploring interaction, perception, and human relationships to complex systems, such the human brain, economic and social systems. He is motivated to discover and generate new forms of knowledge at the intersection between these systems.
Recent artwork have explored our emotional and physical experience as it relates to the Irish landscape. In 2020 he developed a video piece with the support of the Arts Council Covid ‘19 Award. The Famine Pot is a computer animated video piece exploring anxiety as it was felt during a pandemic, the historical connection between past and current crises and the human body as a space that feels and has a memory of these emotional events.
Sculpture can be a shape, language or a form of technology. It can be an object in your hand or an idea in your mind. It can move between these things, changing form with each transformation. He is interested in exploring our world through the lens of sculpture.
Forrest has an expanding interest in how people, nature and history interact, bodies moving through time&space as a material moving through forms. He wish's to expand his practice, incorporating people, artists, forms and new materials. He would like his art to become a form of social sculpture, where people come together and develop new ways of thinking, making and living.
Recently Forrest has reached out to several artists to initiate collaborations. Using his locality as a space for artistic exploration, these artists will come to Redbarn farm, residing in a house (Redbarn-Residency) He has been renovating over the past two years. Together they will develop artworks which examine personal connection, land boundaries and community networks. The works will become part of the Redbarn Residency building at the end of each artist's stay.
Statement
Forrest is an emerging artist working in sculpture & new-media, exploring interaction, perception, and human relationships to complex systems, such the human brain, economic and social systems. He is motivated to discover and generate new forms of knowledge at the intersection between these systems.
Recent artwork have explored our emotional and physical experience as it relates to the Irish landscape. In 2020 he developed a video piece with the support of the Arts Council Covid ‘19 Award. The Famine Pot is a computer animated video piece exploring anxiety as it was felt during a pandemic, the historical connection between past and current crises and the human body as a space that feels and has a memory of these emotional events.
Sculpture can be a shape, language or a form of technology. It can be an object in your hand or an idea in your mind. It can move between these things, changing form with each transformation. He is interested in exploring our world through the lens of sculpture.
Forrest has an expanding interest in how people, nature and history interact, bodies moving through time&space as a material moving through forms. He wish's to expand his practice, incorporating people, artists, forms and new materials. He would like his art to become a form of social sculpture, where people come together and develop new ways of thinking, making and living.
Recently Forrest has reached out to several artists to initiate collaborations. Using his locality as a space for artistic exploration, these artists will come to Redbarn farm, residing in a house (Redbarn-Residency) He has been renovating over the past two years. Together they will develop artworks which examine personal connection, land boundaries and community networks. The works will become part of the Redbarn Residency building at the end of each artist's stay.
