View
5 September – 6 November 2014
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Lightning, 2014, Sandstone column, cast silver, fulgurite
Telescope, 2014, Human skull bone, white-gold leaf, meteorite, marble, pitch pine
Telescope, 2014, detail
Scales, 2014, detail
Finger Crab, 2011, Cast silver
Paper Mountain, 2014, Cast paper, wooden table
Buoy, 2014, Blue-shark skin, white-gold leaf, antique easel, alabaster
Distil, 2014, Glass dome, barrister’s wig, marble, leather, mahogany
Cathedral, 2014, Archival pigment print
Fault, 2014, Archival pigment print
Scales, 2014, Human skull bone, yellow-gold leaf, coat hanger, steel wire, meteorites
Doorway, 2014, Wooden door and tree fungi
Lightning, 2014, Sandstone column, cast silver, fulgurite
A gathering of sculptures ran down the centre of the Kerlin Gallery floor.
The title of the show came from a photograph of a view of a Red Sunset over the ocean on the west coast of Ireland. A window in the gallery, normally hidden, was exposed, providing a large square of white light. A stranded Door with fungal growth stood at one end of the space. At the other end a shark-skin lined with white-gold perched on top of an easel which held a square of translucent white alabaster. A stack of sheets of paper with the peak of mount Everest emerging from the surface met a Telescope focussing into the interior of a skull holding a meteorite. A work called Distil presenting a large bell-jar of ‘fermenting’ elements including a judge’s wig, led to a young boy’s hand cast in silver from which a piece of vitrified lightening, a Fulgurite, emerged. The walls held photographs of an empty schoolroom, a derelict mattress, a shifting cathedral and a cliff face. View was a show of ideas about energy.
List of works (click to expand)
Finger Crab, 2011, Cast silver, 8 cm x 9.5 cm x 12 cm
Buoy, 2014, Blue-shark skin, white-gold leaf, antique easel, alabaster, 180 cm x 130 cm x 80 cm
Glassillaun Snow Peak, 2014, Archival Pigment Print, 88.3 cm x 124 cm
Distil, 2014, Glass dome, barrister’s wig, marble, leather, mahogany, 152 cm x 57.7 cm diameter
Lightning, 2014, Sandstone column, cast silver, fulgurite, Plinth element: height 122 cm x 25 cm diameter, sculptural element: 8 cm x 10 cm x 9 cm
Scales, 2014, Human skull bone, yellow-gold leaf, coat hanger, steel wire, meteorites, Height variable, 83 cm x 50 cm x 13 cm
Telescope, 2014, Human skull bone, white-gold leaf, meteorite, marble, pitch pine, Floor based element: 121 cm x 14 cm x 14 cm, telescope element: 80 cm x 5 cm x 5 cm
Doorway, 2014, Wooden door and tree fungi, 198 cm x 71 cm x 19 cm
Paper Mountain, 2014, Cast paper, wooden table, 58.5 cm x 86.36 cm
Red Horizon, 2014, Archival pigment print, 115 cm x 90 cm
Fault, 2014, Archival pigment print, 115 cm x 90 cm
Cathedral, 2014, Archival pigment print, 115 cm x 90 cm
School Room, 2014, Archival pigment print, 88.3 cm x 121 cm
Mattress, 2014, Archival pigment print, 88.3 cm x 114 cm
Manes, 2014, Archival Pigment Print, 88.3cm x 124 cm