Monika Crowley
MFA FINE ART
National College of Art and Design Dublin
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Printmaking
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Monika Crowley
First Name: Monika
Last Name: Crowley
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Printmaking
Sectors:
My Location: Dublin, Ireland
University / College: National College of Art and Design Dublin
Course / Program Title: MFA FINE ART
About
My multidisciplinary practice is a meditation on the quietly heroic rhythms of domestic life — an attempt to elevate the mundane, reframe everyday chores as meaningful gestures and rituals. Drawing inspiration from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus, my work embraces the absurdity of life while searching for meaning in the everyday. I invite the viewer to reconsider domestic labour not as futile or invisible, but as sacred — small, defiant rituals performed in the face of entropy — acts of resistance against the idea that we exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe. Referencing the writings of Robert Smithson, I resist the modern urge to tidy and control, embracing disorder as a kind of truth. Through oil paint, chalk, and layered materials, I explore the tension between permanence and impermanence, construction and collapse. The assemblage works in my expanded practice are at once both humorous and profound: a visual language where domestic labour becomes ritual, and the everyday becomes, if not eternal, then at least worth pausing for.
My graduate show is a three-part installation incorporating movement, sound, scent, and projection. At the centre of the space, three stained-glass assemblages form a kinetic sequence: one rotates slowly, another emits a soundscape and the scent of laundry, while the third remains static for contrast. On one wall, an oil and chalk painting on canvas rotates intermittently in relation to a site-specific chalk drawing. Opposite, two circular oil and chalk paintings frame a video projection that evokes planetary motion and domestic ritual — where the spin cycle meets the solar system in a quietly choreographed collision.
Competitions
