Irina Prentice

About

Irina Prentice, is a Franco-American artist completing her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Her work explores the intersection of politics, media, and the blurring of the boundaries between reality and fiction. Informed by her previous career as a foreign news journalist and communications/advocate, inevitably her sculptures, drawings and videos make the viewer consider events both far and near. 

There is an authenticity to her work  is derived from being in contact with primary source materials before these are edited. Over 17 years, she covered the second intifada, September 11 before moving to the Middle East where she lived and worked for 13 years as a specialist of the Levant.  Her works can be as humorous and whimsical as they can be emotional and serious. 

Recording events ran in parallel to Prentice’s personal practice of keeping a journal from the age of 10 years of age. In her early teens, inspired by Joseph Cornell and Robert Rauschenberg, Prentice began building layered, intimate worlds in her journals through writing, drawing, collage, and sculpture, exploring the complexity of the world and her place within it. For more than thirty years, she developed a unique visual language of drawn collages made up of materials in her immediate vicinity. 

She has been exhibited in group shows at Galerie Polaris, Paris, France (Oct-Nov 2023), Galerie Le Cent 8, Nogent-Le-Rotrou, France (April-May 2024), the Royal Geographical Society in London (October 2024), The Bomb Factory, London (March 2025), and her first solo of a poetic collaboration with Lebanese author Hyam Yared at La Maison Des Ecritures, La Rochelle, France (March 2025).  

Instagram: @irinaprentice