HOLDING ON lightly was an active presentation of work that is continuously shifting throughout the period of the exhibition. Materials and objects are moved from the artist’s studio situated nearby on Talbot Street and rearranged on site through instinctive movements forming new arrangements. The evolving presentation of carefully chosen materials and objects, alongside those that are handmade, carries a set of questions in relation to the hierarchy between objects/materials and the space they occupy. The audience's interaction with the work is dictated by what is presented in that moment and also by allowing time and light to curate what is visible. I use mundane materials like plastic sheeting, paper, fabric, as well as everyday domestic objects, such as ornaments, carpet and curtains, interwoven with clay, wax, plants and other organic materials. As the cube is transformed with objects forming, accumulating and disappearing, new conversations in turn form and dissipate; leaving the space filled with traces of the experiences that existed. This is a presentation of work always in process never finished always transforming.
The Exhibition was accompanied by a commissioned text by Artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhin The Pink Palace and was supported by The Arts Council of Ireland