BY GRACE WEIR
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Grace Weir studied at the National College of Art and Design and also at Trinity College Dublin, where she won an award for her Masters in Multi-Media graduation project. She co-represented Ireland at the 49th International Venice Biennale in 2001 with her video installation ‘around now’. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, most recently seen in ‘Biennale! Artist film and video’ at Temporarycontemporary in London, ‘As Heavy as the Heavens’ at Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, in Denmark, ‘Tir na nOg’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art , Missing Time at the Agnès b. cinema in Hong Kong, ‘Flights of Reality’ at Kettles Yard Cambridge UK, in ‘Are we there yet’? at Glassbox in Paris, France, and at her solo exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery in Perth, Australia in 2002, and at the RHA Gallery in Dublin in 2000. In 2002 she was commissioned by NIFCA, the Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art in Helsinki Finland to make an interactive work ‘Little Bang’ for their online gallery at www.ionic.nifca.org. Grace Weir collaborated with an astrophysicist exploring aspects of Einstein’s relativity and was commissioned by Cornerhouse in Manchester UK to make two film works ‘Dust defying gravity’ and ‘Bending spacetime in the basement’ in regard to this. They were premiered at her solo show titled ‘a fine line’ at Cornerhouse, Manchester UK in September 2003. In May 2005 she was elected a member of Aosdána. Her work is held in many collections including that of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.