IDA MITRANI ART
Ida Mitrani is a French visual artist living in Ireland since 1997. She received a First Class Honours Masters degree in Art and Process from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2021.
Her multidisciplinary practice explores concepts of social ecology and critical plant studies, including plant blindness, hybridity, and the notions of human and plant adaptation and displacement.
She draws inspiration from careful observations of plants, marine and commercial debris, and the constant flux of images that she digitally manipulates, reproducing the natural biorhythms of creation and destruction through technology. Collages of digitised images and plant-shaped plastics evoke the notion of mimicry, in which organisms evolve to resemble and compete with one another simultaneously.
The act and language of drawing are central to her practice, creating continuity and connection between the various elements and materials encountered during her walks. The resulting works imagine alternative realities in which the entanglement of human and non-human forms gives rise to new conceptions of life.
Awards include the RHA Annual exhibition Work on Paper award (2024), Arts Council Agility Award (2022), Dublin Arts Office residential space (2022), and the Arts for Health residency award at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre (2021).
Her work is now part of the HSE public collection, Crawford MAAP Graduate Collection, the public collection in the National Library in Dublin, the National Archives of Ireland, and the Arts Office in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.
