Fine Arts

Meet the artist: Elaine Byrne

The Dublin artist on special childhood holidays and how she takes inspiration from early cinema

Elaine Byrne: the artist – who works primarily with video, photography, and sculpture – collects lots of things, many of which have come in useful later

Elaine Byrne grew up in a large family in Dublin and now lives between Dublin and Philadelphia.

After graduating from UCD, she lived in London and Zurich before moving back to Dublin to do an MA Vis at IADT. She went on to do the Whitney Independent study programme in New York and is now completing a PhD in film and media at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Working primarily with video, photography and sculpture, she examines ...