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Recent Work
I am currently working on a new project which is temporarily called The Stones of Bray. Inspired by the scholarly book, The Stones of Bray, by Canon George Digby Scott of St. Paul's Church,(Cof I)Bray, I am researching the geology of Bray Head, Naylor's Cove, and the Dargle River as well as significant stone edifices including monuments, stone walls, church ruins, standing stones, gravestones, that are to be found in the vicinity of Bray, Co. Wicklow. I will experiment and use a variety of processes and methods to describe the 'Stones' in a new and different light.
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Topophilia
In his book Topophilia Prof. Yi-Fu Tuan describes Topophilia as the affective bond between people and place. This was one of the books that helped anchor me into examining how the geography of Bray was linked to the perceptions and values of the Bray Community. I selected the local newspaper "The Bray People" as a material means of embodying these perceptions and values. I linked the geology of Bray Head with the Bray newspaper thus combining an affective bond between people and place through the expression of my paper sculptures, the Striations.
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Obsession
Obsession was driven by the memories of emigration and childhood. Studying old black and white photographs of the family and events at Bray, Co. Wicklow I use painting and screenprinting to rework and remake the photographic images. Sections of images were examined, expanded and blown up to reform the images into new and different realities. Repetition of the images underscores the visualisation of obsessiveness.
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