Sibyl Montague

Sibyl Montague's practice explores how we regard, hold, and consume objects and experiences within a politics of care. Her work explores trans-disciplinary forms of usability or handheld, making assemblage based works that combine vegetable, textile, digital and poor material sources, with the hacking of commodity goods and media.

Presented as 'tools' or series of assembled objects of use, her work focuses on disruptive, intimate and generative processes of making that aim to remediate and reroot mass material to its base as extractive, sentient and ecological. The outcome of this is ongoing, evolving physically from the handheld into larger hybrid forms, bundles, blankets, bags or swaddles that can be potentially worn or held with two arms.

Sibyl Montague's (Dublin, Ireland) practice includes sculpture, assemblage, video and installation. Montague was Artist in Residence at VISUAL, Carlow in 2020 and recipient of the IMMA 1000 residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 2019. Exhibitions include The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne, TULCA Festival of Visual Art (2020); SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL, Carlow (2020); Profit & Loss, AEMI online (2020); Saplings, Pallas Projects, Dublin, and My Fears of Tomorrow are Melting Away, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (both 2018). Montague was co-founder and co-curator of PLASTIK international festival of artists’ moving image in Dublin (2015-2017).