Tag: installation

Mosaic

Large mosaic with tiles, shells and found objects. Created in collaboration with artist Heather Gray. Connemara, 2018. This isn’t a painting, but I didn’t know where else to put it. Heather and I created this mosaic for a local artist, on the wall of a little workshop space in her garden. She had been dreaming […]

Dissolving Text

Interactive floor installation and three looped video pieces. This is not Therapy, IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. May 2007. Videos exhibited at the RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin 4 in August 2007. People look at things constantly; they quickly decode meaning, ponder about significance, and then move on. Time for appreciation of […]

Treasure Hunt

Live art hunt and mounted photographs. Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Broadstone Studios, Dublin 7. April 2009. With this piece the audience used the special maps on their exhibition invitations or flyers to locate the gallery. Along the way there are hidden scenes for the viewer to discover, turning this normally mundane task into an […]

Cardboard Curiosities

Mixed media installation. Mart: Open Door Policy, Galway Arts Festival. July 2009. The intent of this piece is to induce three forms of delight. Firstly, the simple aesthetic quality of the interconnecting sculptural forms and the play of light and shadow innately please the human eye. Secondly, on further investigation the viewer is rewarded by […]

The Good Shit

Interactive video installation. Kaleidoscope, IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. October 2009. This piece centres on the answers to a question posed to the public (via a blog page and collection boxes) regarding the seemingly insignificant pleasures which we experience every day; the little enjoyable moments of life, which often go overlooked. The aim is to create […]

Room

Mixed media installation. Part of solo show Streakers at The Joinery, Dublin 7 in April 2011 and IADT Graduate Degree Show in June 2010. My practice at the time centred on audience participation and contemporary cultural mindsets; I created mundane situations and injected them with flashes of light-hearted humour and diversion, focusing on ideas of […]

Art Holes

The Artellectual Correlation Game MART @ Twisted Pepper (part of The Beatyard Weekender), Dublin. October 2010. Game components include balls with various icons/symbols and the art holes table, which has holes labelled with art terms (artists, movements etc.). Players are given three balls and asked to match the symbols on the balls with the correct […]

Streakers

Interactive video installation. Part of solo show Streakers at The Joinery, Dublin 7. April 2011. My practice at the time centred on audience participation and contemporary cultural mindsets; I created mundane situations and injected them with flashes of light-hearted humour and diversion, focusing on ideas of play, imagination and exploration. More Installation More Art