The Limits of my Language Curated by Rachel Botha brought three artists with very different practices together, Chloe Brennan, Elaine Grainger and Johanna Nulty. Presented through a window in Covid, My work remained in the space for an extended period.
In its essence my practice is about recording and revealing what is unseen and unheard. Threads sewn together are born from small observations; things left untouched, the residue of an event and fragments of recollection losing its detail. The work on site in the gallery space was created in direct response to an engagement with a local limestone quarry. Uncovering memory through the rupture in the landscape and recording its active transformation. The works presented in the gallery space have themselves been through transformation, porcelain ground to dust, crab apples fallen and cast forms an altered time frame of transformation. Each assembled piece has the potential to collapse, deflate and disintegrate but never to disappear.
This exhibition was accompanied by a commissioned text by Michaela Nash and was supported by Kilkenny County Council, Fingal County Council and The Arts Council of Ireland
This video piece was part of an online presentation In-between site // non-site in conjunction to the exhibition Limits of my language.
Holding on to something fleeting, a space to adapt, move, transform and understand the fragile nature of living breathing material. I wanted to capture and hold a little longer, small fleeting moments. To present them knowing within minutes they could be altered. An act performed, a line drawn then re-drawn, marks are caught for a split second and sound that disappears into the ether. This space is to give the viewer an opportunity to be in-between the site and non-site. This work was filmed at a quarry in Kilkenny and in the artist studio, Sound design was supported by Mark O’Gorman