Based in Cork City, Elinor O’Donorvan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice references internet memes, cartoons, and film & TV tropes. Through playful sculpture, collage, drawing, video and installations she is interested in teasing out the ways that popular culture contributes to knowledge, and how familiarity with common tropes in popular culture allows us to form cognitive shortcuts, influencing how we understand the world around us. Her work responds to the humour and fallibility of memory and knowledge, how gossip and rumours become myth, and the blurred line between fiction and reality. Her work is presented in various forms; loose, sketchy drawings which refer to newspaper cartoons and TV animations; license-free stock images mounted on MDF and timber structures; tripods and photo backdrop stands holding up meme-like digital collages with clamps and masking tape. These presentations draw from theatre set design, where she examines the dichotomies of front-stage/back-stage, public/private space, and audience/performer, but they also reference the fact that she works very quickly, storming through the making process and bringing the tools from each stage along with her. She is interested in the radical potential of aesthetic neoteny; an aesthetic which celebrates playfulness, and demonstrates a willingness to be unfinished, to leave problems unresolved in the work. By choosing to leave the raw materials of her work exposed, she asks the question; what value remains when a work of art is sketchy and unformed?