Patsy Tyrrell is a visual artist working with performance, sound, drawing and sculpture.
Tyrrell’s practice is grounded in a concern for how the physical and psychological limitations of a person's situational experience might hinder and deviate their movements. She considers how a person's movement through a space determines their perception of it. She contemplates the invisible happenings and ways of being that hold real value.
Through touch and time she finds a point of contact to make tangible her own perceptual experience. She slows a space down to consider the invisible realities or happenings within the space, visually and physically feeling through an embodied and tacit knowledge of experience.
Monument frames softness, gentle power and small moments of movement as monumental in both their individual mark and their accumulative fabric. Taking up space in softness, Tyrrell exemplifies the structural importance of stillness and vulnerability.

Monument (detail), pencil, paper, sound and performance, 800 x 150cm. Photography by Amy Keighron

Monument (detail), pencil, paper, sound and performance, 800 x 150cm. Photography by Amy Keighron

Monument (detail), pencil, paper, sound and performance, 800 x 150cm. Photography by Ebba Radke