Christine Molloy, is a UK-based artist known for her works of theatre, interactive art, and film.

Life and career

Molloy was born in Dublin, Ireland. She studied theatre in the late 1980s at

Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...

, UK, alongside her partner Joe Lawlor, both graduating in 1992. Molloy and Lawlor have together made works of theatre, interactive art, and film, as creative partnership Desperate Optimists, which also became the name of their production company.

Career

In a 2016 article in Sight and Sound, Sophie Mayer described their filmmaking process as 'a unique merging of community arts (with months spent developing relationships and stories) and vérité documentary'.

References

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