Cearcall is an Interdisciplinary Artistic Research initiative exploring the intersections of philosophy, art history, psychology and spirituality.
Siobhàn is a 24 year old Scottish American Artist who started their journey in this life from the Isle of Skye. Writing their first full length philosophical fiction novel at seventeen; they have always had an interest in how stories shape us. Subsequently, after completing an MA in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam while working as a yoga and meditation teacher, they came to recognise that their research interests lay at the intersection of phenomenology, the narrative self and spiritual experience .
Alongside their diagrammatic drawing practice, Siobhàn has written three philosophical fiction novels, using narrative as a speculative and creative method for investigating questions of identity, consciousness and transformation. Their broader research is concerned with the possibility that philosophy itself might be understood not only as a system of rational inquiry, but as an inherently creative and imaginative practice.
Siobhàn speaks English, French, Spanish and Scottish Gaelic. Their professional experience spans museums, cultural institutions, tourism and the arts. While living in Amsterdam, they worked across the city’s museum sector, served on the board of the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis, exhibited their artistic work, and organised socially engaged art events. They also worked as a yoga teacher, an experience that further informed their interest in embodied forms of knowledge and experiential approaches to spirituality.They subsequently worked as a Creative Director within the Scottish tourism industry and currently work in visitor engagement at the National Galleries of Scotland.
As a lesbian and genderqueer artist, questions of representation are central to Siobhàn’s practice. They are particularly interested in how inherited narratives of identity might be questioned, reimagined and reformulated in the contemporary age, and in how artistic and philosophical practices can create space for bodies, experiences and stories that have historically been excluded from dominant forms of representation.
Their practice ultimately asks how art can function not simply as a means of representing experience, but as a means of thinking, knowing and transforming it.
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