MARK REDDEN
“The true artists it is a kind of document maker, who makes documents of humans lives. They are the maintainers of cultures”.
"I am crafting a visual language that aims to be interpreted or understood freely. I wish the viewer to have a free association with the work."
-Mark Redden
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Mark Redden (nacido en 1979, Dublín, Irlanda) vive y trabaja en Barcelona. Después de graduarse en pintura y escultura en el Instituto de Arte y Diseño de Dunlaoghaire (Dublín) y en el Crawford College of Art and Design (Cork), Redden trabajó como aprendiz de un constructor de barcos en Galway y luego dominó el arte de construir currachs, embarcaciones tradicionales de marco cubierto de piel que provienen de la costa oeste de Irlanda, un arte que continúa practicando en la actualidad.
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Mark Redden (born 1979, Dublin, Ireland) lives and works in Barcelona. After graduating in fine art painting and sculpture from Dunlaoghaire Institute of Art and Design (Dublin) and Crawford College of Art and Design (Cork), Redden worked as an apprentice to a boat-builder in Galway and later mastered the art of building currachs – traditional skin-on-frame boats that come from the west coast of Ireland – an art he continues nowadays.
