The site of exhibition at The Complex, is reconfigured from a large fruit warehouse and, with a minimal amount of change. Through this it retains a balance, absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness with the innumerable scratches and marks on its surface but also through the sense of possibility inherent in allowing it to become a space for a new purpose; a site for art. It is this state of transition that theoretically links the my practice to the site
These assembled objects slowly evolve out of a working method that begins with the collection and selection of materials. A combination of ready-made materials and appropriated objects are transformed through a process of making and placing, arranging and rearranging. I create an environment of tension between what may seem fixed with what is temporary. Assemblages are caught in the moment of being and not being, of becoming and collapsing. Questioning the value in the friction between attraction to change and the aversion to it, permits the work to appear partially assembled and also to remain unresolved.
The exhibition is accompanied by a commissioned text by Ingrid Lyons and is supported by Fingal County Council and Fire Station Artists Studios.