Creamatorium

Creamatorium, 2020 Mixed Media

  1. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – photo

  2. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – photo

  3. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – still

  4. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – still

  5. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – still

  6. Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – video

    Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium, 2020, Mixed Media – video

Creamatorium combines sculpture, image, and text to explore the grave as a space for creative expression under colonial rule in Ireland, contrasting it with English approaches to garden design in the 17th and 18th centuries. Guided by the necropastoral and the subterranean - where death lives - ‘strange meetings’ happen between the artist, her friends, North Belfast horse mythology, the soil, the dead, and the internet.

Jennifer Mehigan - With a background in floristry and graphic design, Jennifer Mehigan combines cliches of contemporary self-help literature with queer Irish histories and the violent poetics of abstraction. Her often multi-disciplinary installations are grounded in a framework of painting, beginning as images that morph into text, sound, smell or taste.