SWARM operates less as a theme and more as a descriptive process. Swarm intelligence is used to describe systems typically made up of a population of simple agents interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is normally no centralised control structure dictating how individual agents should behave, local interactions between such agents often lead to the emergence of global behaviour.

SWARM operates along this premise. Aspects of synchronization within the concept of swarm as a form is explored in the sound work, which is another of O’Reilly’s reworking of electronic and trance music.

Along side this is a hybrid text based rope light drawing, together they diffuse and resonate in the temporal circumstance of 29 Sean Treacy House.O’Reilly is undoubtedly an optimist who demands a reaction to her individualistic affiliation to the world at large. She is also an observer whose work is often connected to making a sense of place. an intrinsic quality to the work is a nomadic sensibility, an understanding of the shifting nature of possibilities of display as well as the paradigms that surround and create each and every opportunity.

Biography:

Vanessa O’Reilly lives and works between London and Ireland. From April – August she will participate in the Artist’s Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Past exhibitions have included << Multiplicity, Fota House, Cork << free from the itch of desire, The Butler Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and The Beltable << EV+A Imagine Limerick << NoRespect, Dublin << Bienal de La Habana, Cuba << Eurojet Futures at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin << Big Torino the Turin Biennalle, Italy << Gasterbeiter at 2YK, the Kunstfabrik, Berlin << EV+A expanded << EV+A Heroes & Holies << Premises at Milch Gallery London (solo).