This work explores Dublin’s urban environment, its impact on our senses and my conflicted responses to it, both alienating and stimulating.
My practice involves drawing and mark-making while working with a limited colour palette as it lends more impact, much like the city on the senses. The bright pink mirrors the effect of city lights vying for our attention, sharp and unforgiving. This unforgiving quality of an urban environment can be seen in the limited palette and drawings of buildings at a low angle view.
Street rubbings are a way of creatively engaging in the physical hardness of my locality to produce a tactile response to urban qualities such as old stone steps. Repetitive mark making in the circular pieces is a reflective method of creative engagement, allowing me to enter a peaceful state that allows for insights to arise around boundaries and the impact of urban life on them.
Stone Cold, charcoal, gold ink on mixed media on card
There is Always Gold, charcoal, black and gold ink
Highs and Lows , charcoal and ink
Living Boundaries, Gold, black pen on acetate, wire
Urban Perspectives, charcoal and ink
Research
Investigating the Properties of Stone, charcoal and pen
Urban street rubbings
Sketchbook pages
Representing the feeling of the urban environment , Charcoal, ink on newsprint
Ink Explorations, charcoal, ink, wax