Sibyl Montague

  • Sibyl Montague’s multidisciplinary practice combines sculpture, moving image, drawing, sound, installation, textile, digital, vegetable, and ‘poor’ material sources with the hacking and disassembly of commodity goods and media. Her varied work plays with systems of value and worth, where the taking apart and reassembling of found material reveal the economies of labour and extraction embedded within them. Considering how we regard, hold, and consume objects and experiences within a politics of care, Montague’s work is often presented as 'tools' or series of assembled objects of use. Her work focuses on disruptive, intimate, and generative processes of making that aim to remediate and reroot mass material to its base as extractive, sentient, and ecological. Montague’s work further engages with decolonial approaches to iconography and language that realign knowledge gathered from local, rural, and ancestral communities, land, and megalithic sites. Montague's practice has at its heart an expression of fite fuaite – the Irish concept of interconnectedness, belonging, and the association between personhood, craft, and materiality.

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Sibyl Montague’s multidisciplinary practice combines sculpture, moving image, drawing, sound, installation, textile, digital, vegetable, and ‘poor’ material sources with the hacking and disassembly of commodity goods and media. Her varied work plays with systems of value and worth, where the taking apart and reassembling of found material reveal the economies of labour and extraction embedded within them. Considering how we regard, hold, and consume objects and experiences within a politics of care, Montague’s work is often presented as ‘tools’ or series of assembled objects of use. Her work focuses on disruptive, intimate, and generative processes of making that aim to remediate and reroot mass material to its base as extractive, sentient, and ecological. Montague’s work further engages with decolonial approaches to iconography and language that realign knowledge gathered from local, rural, and ancestral communities, land, and megalithic sites. Montague’s practice has at its heart an expression of fite fuaite – the Irish concept of interconnectedness, belonging, and the association between personhood, craft, and materiality.