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To give an overview of my various working methods and the variety of materials used.
"Healing Memories" Installation with sound and performance art work. The works deals with the flooding in Midleton and also refers to the flooding that once was a feature of my family home in Mallow.
" The Certainty Of Chance" Sound and Visual Installation. Presented at Greywood Arts May Day Festival. Using the sound of playing cards being shuffled and played (very quietly). Card playing is a very popular activity in the village.
"Leopold Bloom Dreaming Of A Life Outside Of Ulysses" Blue Parker Ink on Antique Office Paper. Drawing series 30" x 24"
Sound and visual installation. Commissioned for Unit 44(Kirkos) Stonybatter Dublin on the centenary of the publication of Ulysses.
Also includes Limited Edition 7" vinyl picture disc.
" (Re)Locating The Soundscape" Sound and Visual Installation Lapps Quay and Sweeney's Quay (including bridges) Cork commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. This is the largest outdoor sound installation even presented in Ireland. Its deal with the sounds of the fishing boats disappearing from the City centre.
" Sounding The Town" Sound and Visual installation. Asking people "what would you do to raise climate change awareness in your town" and making field recordings of the replies plus field recording of local natural sounds . Using these recordings as a sound palette the artist created an everchanging soundscape to accompany the installation. All materials used in this installation were sourced from the local recycling plant.
" Isn't Nature Wonderful ? Yes I said But Is It Art" Sound and Visual sculpture Crawford Gallery Cork. Leaves, Bronze Pears and audio speakers. Field recordings mixed by the audience by opening and closing the pears.
"Listen Hear Sean O'Riada" This work pays tribute to the great Irish composer/musician Sean O'Riada and stems from access to his death mask in UCC. They work revolves around his statement that the sound of a Ceili Band was about as interesting as the sound of a bluebottle in an upturned jam jar. (O'Riada in Our Musical Heritage Radio Broadcast). I think the sound of a bluebottle is very interesting. This has been exhibited in U.C.C., Crawford Gallery and Templebar Gallery,Dublin.
This work refers to the sound of a corn field being gently blown by the breeze and the places names of places and fields once familiar and now forgotten. Market House Gallery Waterford and Errant Sound Berlin.
"River Ru(i)n" Two still images from my film installation River Ru(i)n an art film dealing with climate change and its effect on nature.
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