"Naturally a recycling being, destined to nomadism, she spends most of her life moving objects from a place to another and to fix and store them as part of her alchemy process and meditation towards new creative productions."
40 years experience as Visual Designer, Curator and Promoter of events,
McBett then studied physical theatre as her way to acquire knowledge of the humanity behaviour.
McBett obtained her Accademia di Belle Arti degree in 1984 with full marks, which followed her Maestro d'Arte in Ceramics diploma in 1980,
meantime already participating with art projects to contemporary art exhibitions curated by renewed art curators, like Luigi Crispolti Achille Bonito Oliva etc. and being active part of the urban cultural scene of Roma.
An independent artist, McBett experienced in time all the branches of visual productions, spending the earlier part of her life working in the settings for theatre, so her later art endeavour is influenced by this set design background.
Trained in Scenografia Oggi studios, where whe worked for the make of props and sets for national TV Opera, Theatre and Cinema sets,
she Co-founded oAtmoscena Co-op (Set Designers, Rome 1982-85) and later co-founded and then lead as 10 years chairperson of Anonima Progetti Co-op (sets, backstage and events, Rome, 1986-97).
McBett moved to Ireland, in Dublin, in 1998 where, after having funded A-GRO BA theater company for a year, worked in a local art-studios (Pallas studios, Gerard's Dowling studio) for achieving arts works and exhibitions, being therefore selected in local, national and international exhibitions.
For 5 years she directed, curated and managed the pilot project, multicultural, experimental space SHE-D (formely The Shed 2006-11)
and soon after promoted the Mountjoy Square World Orchestra project, to engage with local-international culture.
In 2013 became member of Comitato 3 Ottobre and participated to the congress for the writing of Lampedusa's Chart, in Lampedusa, for the rights of free circulation and the opening of borders.
Moved to New Ross, Co Wexford, in 2014 where she became a member of the R.A.M.P. collective.
Following a period of illness, McBett tried to develop a residential program for local communities and has been temporarily elected Director for the Community & Voluntary Sector for New Ross Urban Area and therefore has been shortly part of the Board of Directors for Wexford Local Development.
A Director and Secretary in the Board of Directors of Forests Friends Ireland, after years of collaboration and broadcasts with this environmental group, she is now promoting her Forest Friends Ireland branch called BEITHE DEOIR to produce awareness on sustainibility and biodiversity through which she produces community projects with local institutions support (Waterford County Council).
Her sustainable/zerowaste/freegan project STAY HUMAN IRELAND, is active to distribute eco-friendly vegan remains from Sustanaible makers, workshops and factories worldwide in link with plenty of International Human Rights organizations.
Resident in South Wexford, her studio is based in Waterford Town, by The Rougue Gallery and Studios, where she is resident for an medium term environmental project.
Her production/documentation company is Narrow Lanes International.
It aims to social activism, campaigning and documentation on sustainibility, climate crisis, human and animal rights and personal art/experimental publications, in link with these principles.
McBett is a member of Spam Art, in Rome, of Art Process website art community, she is registered in Ireland with V.A.I. and IVARO and IMRO, and a member of South East Makers Space in Waterford.
In support of her creative endeavor, McBett achieved in time institutional grants and awards, locally and internationally (City Council of Rome, City Council of Dublin, Culture Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Sculpture in Context Ireland, Forest Friends Ireland, Waterford County Council).
McBett works, performances and documentaries are temporarely or permanently exhibited in private and public spaces internationally
and her documents are part of Museum archives in Ireland (Iontas, Sculpture inContext, Dublin Castle, Dublin Writers Museum, Samuel Beckett Theatre at Thrinity College, Kilmainham Gaol, NCAD, Coombe Hospital, Waterford Art Healing Trust, Ferrybank Shopping Centre in Kilkenny, Sligo Art Centre, Blu Raincoat Theatre, Waterford GOMA gallery and more) and internationally (Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome, Teatro Ghione Rome, Teatro della Cometa Rome, Contemporary Art Museum of Novi Sad, Barcelona Nuevo Teatre, Columbus Ohio US Cultural centre, San Marino SMIAFestival dei Giovani Saperi, Torino Paratissima Festival, Trapani Art Process International Art Exhibition, London Art fair, New York Art project, Greece, Liverpool AhAH Festival etc).
My Research
My artistic experience aims to provoke and stimulate exchanges between people to be involved in their specific contexts and to consider their resulting contributions within high standard experimental art creations.
This exchange is planned from the beginning to the end as an unique creative process, including concepts, specific materials, techniques,
scripts and sounds and whose results produce very diverse, conterxtualised and often also mutating estetics.
The richness of the result is given from the specific variety of responses given from the specific contexts and time.
Principles
Working in determined environments (cities, hospitals, jails, traveller centres, teen-clubs, carboot sale markets, streets, natural environments, etc) has brought me into contact with individuals of disparate background, whose experience can be complex and enriching.
I meet persons outside the confines of safe academic environments, offering to release us from confinements into social community frames or labels. Persons' unique experiences, independently from being academically trained or not, are the valuable contribution I target to.
The recent years are spent in hermitage, after moving to a countryside insulated and dismissed area, in contact with animals and natural elements where to study sustainable natural environmental solutions,
so I am focusing on eco-art studies and projects and climate stabilization.
In this context I am facing the past years natural cathastrophes and the pandemy.
Through this continuous informal learning process, in progress, I approach my everyday life.
Publications:
McBett's endeavour has been published in time in articles and listings internationally in Ireland, Uk, Us, Italy, Germany, Greece, Serbia, Spain on specific magazines and newspapers.
Being a blogger, McBett engages with a continuous experimental management of most social media, in which she intertains conversation on various congruent matters, as part of her research and communication, so as a parallel form of her artistic endeavour.
She wrote few books and directed/produced a documentary, intentionally unpublished, one book of which (Testimonianze Sparse) was awarded a second prize at Stampa Alternativa's Scritti nel Cassetto prize, in Rome in 1991.
(Updated Nov 2021)
40 years experience as Visual Designer, Curator and Promoter of events,
McBett then studied physical theatre as her way to acquire knowledge of the humanity behaviour.
McBett obtained her Accademia di Belle Arti degree in 1984 with full marks, which followed her Maestro d'Arte in Ceramics diploma in 1980,
meantime already participating with art projects to contemporary art exhibitions curated by renewed art curators, like Luigi Crispolti Achille Bonito Oliva etc. and being active part of the urban cultural scene of Roma.
An independent artist, McBett experienced in time all the branches of visual productions, spending the earlier part of her life working in the settings for theatre, so her later art endeavour is influenced by this set design background.
Trained in Scenografia Oggi studios, where whe worked for the make of props and sets for national TV Opera, Theatre and Cinema sets,
she Co-founded oAtmoscena Co-op (Set Designers, Rome 1982-85) and later co-founded and then lead as 10 years chairperson of Anonima Progetti Co-op (sets, backstage and events, Rome, 1986-97).
McBett moved to Ireland, in Dublin, in 1998 where, after having funded A-GRO BA theater company for a year, worked in a local art-studios (Pallas studios, Gerard's Dowling studio) for achieving arts works and exhibitions, being therefore selected in local, national and international exhibitions.
For 5 years she directed, curated and managed the pilot project, multicultural, experimental space SHE-D (formely The Shed 2006-11)
and soon after promoted the Mountjoy Square World Orchestra project, to engage with local-international culture.
In 2013 became member of Comitato 3 Ottobre and participated to the congress for the writing of Lampedusa's Chart, in Lampedusa, for the rights of free circulation and the opening of borders.
Moved to New Ross, Co Wexford, in 2014 where she became a member of the R.A.M.P. collective.
Following a period of illness, McBett tried to develop a residential program for local communities and has been temporarily elected Director for the Community & Voluntary Sector for New Ross Urban Area and therefore has been shortly part of the Board of Directors for Wexford Local Development.
A Director and Secretary in the Board of Directors of Forests Friends Ireland, after years of collaboration and broadcasts with this environmental group, she is now promoting her Forest Friends Ireland branch called BEITHE DEOIR to produce awareness on sustainibility and biodiversity through which she produces community projects with local institutions support (Waterford County Council).
Her sustainable/zerowaste/freegan project STAY HUMAN IRELAND, is active to distribute eco-friendly vegan remains from Sustanaible makers, workshops and factories worldwide in link with plenty of International Human Rights organizations.
Resident in South Wexford, her studio is based in Waterford Town, by The Rougue Gallery and Studios, where she is resident for an medium term environmental project.
Her production/documentation company is Narrow Lanes International.
It aims to social activism, campaigning and documentation on sustainibility, climate crisis, human and animal rights and personal art/experimental publications, in link with these principles.
McBett is a member of Spam Art, in Rome, of Art Process website art community, she is registered in Ireland with V.A.I. and IVARO and IMRO, and a member of South East Makers Space in Waterford.
In support of her creative endeavor, McBett achieved in time institutional grants and awards, locally and internationally (City Council of Rome, City Council of Dublin, Culture Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Sculpture in Context Ireland, Forest Friends Ireland, Waterford County Council).
McBett works, performances and documentaries are temporarely or permanently exhibited in private and public spaces internationally
and her documents are part of Museum archives in Ireland (Iontas, Sculpture inContext, Dublin Castle, Dublin Writers Museum, Samuel Beckett Theatre at Thrinity College, Kilmainham Gaol, NCAD, Coombe Hospital, Waterford Art Healing Trust, Ferrybank Shopping Centre in Kilkenny, Sligo Art Centre, Blu Raincoat Theatre, Waterford GOMA gallery and more) and internationally (Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome, Teatro Ghione Rome, Teatro della Cometa Rome, Contemporary Art Museum of Novi Sad, Barcelona Nuevo Teatre, Columbus Ohio US Cultural centre, San Marino SMIAFestival dei Giovani Saperi, Torino Paratissima Festival, Trapani Art Process International Art Exhibition, London Art fair, New York Art project, Greece, Liverpool AhAH Festival etc).
My Research
My artistic experience aims to provoke and stimulate exchanges between people to be involved in their specific contexts and to consider their resulting contributions within high standard experimental art creations.
This exchange is planned from the beginning to the end as an unique creative process, including concepts, specific materials, techniques,
scripts and sounds and whose results produce very diverse, conterxtualised and often also mutating estetics.
The richness of the result is given from the specific variety of responses given from the specific contexts and time.
Principles
Working in determined environments (cities, hospitals, jails, traveller centres, teen-clubs, carboot sale markets, streets, natural environments, etc) has brought me into contact with individuals of disparate background, whose experience can be complex and enriching.
I meet persons outside the confines of safe academic environments, offering to release us from confinements into social community frames or labels. Persons' unique experiences, independently from being academically trained or not, are the valuable contribution I target to.
The recent years are spent in hermitage, after moving to a countryside insulated and dismissed area, in contact with animals and natural elements where to study sustainable natural environmental solutions,
so I am focusing on eco-art studies and projects and climate stabilization.
In this context I am facing the past years natural cathastrophes and the pandemy.
Through this continuous informal learning process, in progress, I approach my everyday life.
Publications:
McBett's endeavour has been published in time in articles and listings internationally in Ireland, Uk, Us, Italy, Germany, Greece, Serbia, Spain on specific magazines and newspapers.
Being a blogger, McBett engages with a continuous experimental management of most social media, in which she intertains conversation on various congruent matters, as part of her research and communication, so as a parallel form of her artistic endeavour.
She wrote few books and directed/produced a documentary, intentionally unpublished, one book of which (Testimonianze Sparse) was awarded a second prize at Stampa Alternativa's Scritti nel Cassetto prize, in Rome in 1991.
(Updated Nov 2021)
