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Monoculture, Shmonoculture!

Úna Lemoine

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I'm a multidisciplinary Irish artist. My work explores communication and community. I plan to progress from my Pre-Degree Foundation in Art and Design to study Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martin's next year.

I'm a multidisciplinary Irish artist. My work explores communication and community. I plan to pro...

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I want to celebrate linguistic diversity, growing up hearing how the Irish language is ‘a dead language’ I wanted to fight against living in a monoculture. I’ve noticed how the use of languages celebrates diversity, community and fun; I have tried to keep these values at the centre of my project throughout by interviewing my peers and linguistic experts to highlight the joy and importance of language learning. My favourite part has been creating a ‘Live Dictionary’ in which people can write and illustrate their favourite word or phrase. I want to continue adding to this, as a yearly tradition.

Final work

Monoculture, Shmonoculture!

This short film includes interviews with many of the staff and students of Lime Grove about the role language plays in their lives. The microphone, named Kiki, was designed as a mascot for the project. The spikey design was inspired by my research on the Bouba/ Kiki effect.

Warning: Contains flashing images
two hands hold a book with colour pencil drawings instructing the reader on how to contribute to the instructions page of the live dictionary
Two hads holding a page with an abstract drawing on it and the words 'spleodrach;Irish;Full of joyous energy'
  • stars made of plastic and black and white digital drawings of stars against a white backdrop
  • three variations of a star image in black and white
  • stars made of plastic and black and white digital drawings of stars against a white backdrop

Research and process

  • Colouful advert and a bowl of sweets,Coa variety of colourful paintings and signs, including figure drawings, mountain ranges and advertising posters
  • Colouful 'one minute interview for sweets' advert and a bowl of sweets, screen printed landscape, colourful acrylic figure drawings
  • colourful painting of a figure in candlelight and tow figures dancing
  • A crowd of people watch a screen with two people sat in front of a table of art work
  • an exhibtion of work with people looking at a short film and posters

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Monoculture, Shmonoculture!

I want to celebrate linguistic diversity, growing up hearing how the Irish language is ‘a dead language’ I wanted to fight against living in a monoculture. I’ve noticed how the use of languages celebrates diversity, community and fun; I have tried to keep these values at the c...

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