Transmission, 2017, MART Gallery, Dublin
Two person exhibition with Helen Mc Mahon Curated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan ‘Transmission’ explores light as catalyst to investigate the risks in our everyday life. Examining and reinventing light as a material to provoke our understanding of the space within the constructs of the gallery and beyond, producing experimental methodologies to act as a mirror and analysis of the structure of our world. By creating these dialogues which challenge conventional views, the exhibition aims to push preconceived expectations of how visibility works and is understood. The exhibition surveys the processes of how light moves through space, exploring both its and our expectations of its functions. How light moves through space can often bring forward new possibilities in presentation and representation, igniting exploration through visibility and quite often producing overlooked qualities. The works explore visibility, the process of perception, expectations versus function and assesses how our beliefs or understanding of light can be changed or manipulated through positioning, alignment and juxtaposition.‘A certain slant of light’, 2017, (version 3) in MART Gallery
Installing for ‘Transmission’ at MART Gallery, Dublin. Runs from April 6th - May 5th 2017
Studio experiments with polarisers and layered sellotape
Studio experiment - polariser, sellotape
Cyanotype experiments with a Porro prism
‘Blackout’ (2015) Exhibited at Light Falls, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin May 14th - June 11th 2015 The installation is composed of objects made from polarising filters. Polarisers are optical filters that allow light of a specific orientation to pass through them. When two polarisers are placed in perpendicular arrangement all light is blocked, making an otherwise transparent object become totally black. These forms look completely transparent, but they turn black when viewed through the polarised frame in the gallery space. The image on the left is the view through this frame.
‘Blackout’ (2015) Exhibited in Light Falls, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin May 14th - June 11th 2015 'Blackout’ is an installation composed of objects made from polarised filters and sellotape. Placing sellotape between the two polarisers produces prismatic colours due to double refraction.
Detail from ‘Blackout’, exhibited as part of 'Light Falls’ at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2015)
polarisers,sellotape,glass,walnut
Scott Lyall | Liadin Cooke | Sofie Loscher | Bridget Riley | Mark Joyce | Marcia Hafif.
The works, which hail from different geographical contexts, express a shared attentiveness to the physical properties and enigmatic effects of light. Paint, plastic and paper become media of absorption, reflection and refraction, alluding to each artist’s indebtedness to this invisible energy.
May 14th - June 11th 2015
http://www.greenonredgallery.com/exhibition.php?intProjectID=137
Detail from ‘A Degree of Darkness’, shown as part of 'Intelligent Machinery’ at Farmleigh Gallery
Sofie Loscher | Jonathan Mayhew | Niamh O'Doherty
April 3rd - May 31st 2015
The exhibition ‘Intelligent Machinery’ explores ideas that inform artificial intelligence, pattern recognition (in neural networks), complex networks, coding, and how these factors have been used in seminal moments in our history. The classical grid of Art History has given way to the ‘system’, and modern forms of invention have to deal with a norm composed of complex inputs often concerned with redaction, obfuscation and reflection. “To understand art as software is to understand it in terms of codes and information rather than in material or medium-specific terms.” A contemporary art-tech revolution now sees a new form of mechanical perception within the confusion of digital avatars.
A Degree of Darkness (2015) ‘Intelligent Machinery’, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin polarisers, sellotape, wood, glass A deetail of 'A Degree of Darkness’ installation shown as part of 'Intelligent Machinery’ at Farmleigh Gallery. The same object appears in both images - the image on the left showing the blackening of the icosahedron when viewed through a polarising filter.
A Degree of Darkness (2015)
Intelligent Machinery at Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
2015
Materials: polarisers, sellotape, wood, glass
Exhibition runs from April 2nd to May 31st 2015
‘Triangulation’ - detail images of work
2015
Materials: Polarisers, Wood, Sellotape
Exhibition: ‘Welcome Disturbance’, The LAB Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
January 29th 2015 - April 11th 2015
http://www.ucdartinscience.com/welcome-disturbances/4588048237
Placing sellotape between the two polarisers produces prismatic colours due to double refraction: the colours shift and change as you move in relation to the work
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