PROFILE

Born in Germany, lives and works in Leitrim/Sligo, Ireland.

Concerned with our connection to the ‘Other’, Bettina Seitz explores in her sculptures and site-responsive sculpture installations in resin, concrete, bronze, aluminium, fabric and wax how we relate as human beings to each other and how we relate to the ‘Other’ in the sense of our interconnection with everything. In recent projects the absence of the figure resonates a ghost like human presence and evokes associations with the past and otherness. In her work she is engaging with landscape, history and mythology in projects such as the collaborative ‘Walking Birds Mountain I and II’ and ‘Underwave’ – an underwater exhibitions of sculptures in Sligo Bay, which was filmed and streamed online in 2020.

Bettina Seitz graduated in sculpture from the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy and has exhibited her work widely nationally and internationally. Recent projects include: ‘A Trembling Veil’ at Belgravia Gallery, London with Patrick Hall & Nick Miller; ‘Ghosts’, site-responsive exhibition at The Model & historical buildings in Sligo for 1916-2016 programme of events; Group shows in New York, Berlin, London, Dublin and Boyle Arts Festival; Public Art for European Capital of Volunteering, Doorly Park Sligo; ‘Walking Birds Mountain I and II’- collaborative projects of visual artists, writers and archeologists exploring the landscape and mythology of the Ballygawley mountains in County Sligo and ‘Underwave’- an underwater exhibition in Sligo Bay of 11 sculptures, representing successive arrivals to our shores from Sligo’s earliest settlers to people contributing to our modern multi-cultural society, filmed & streamed online to an international audience for Tread Softly festival 2020.