Year: 2013
Studio experiment using lights and glass.
A setup of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion used in stage productions during the late nineteenth century.
Year: 2012
Media: till rolls
Dimensions: 50cm × 90cm × 180cm (h × w × d)
This installation consists of hundreds of till rolls that have been unraveled, re-rolled with their cores removed and wound up in in varying heights and shapes. Combined, the till rolls create an undulating, unstable surface ranging in height from 5cm to 50cm.
Detail of work exhibited in Monster Truck Gallery, 2012.
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Media: till rolls
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trans[formative], Monster Truck Gallery, June 1st, 2012
Media: till rolls
The moment directly before the bubble ruptures will keep its normally transitive action in a condition that is visible, but temporally suspended. This state occurs as a threshold, or, as a point where the object transfers from one condition to another. This is the core function of liminality: a series of alterations through active physical states, and, an attempt to make unstable states permanent.
Year: 2012
Media: weather balloons, argon, helium, rope
Exhibited: ‘Tunnelling Art & Physics’, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2012, in collaboration with Rebecca Keoghan (UCD School of Physics)
Contained within the balloons are the different Nobel gases Argon and Helium. They are inert, stable and unreactive. The tendency of balloons to float or sink is dependent on the density of the gas inside the balloon. By taking into account other forces including lift, mass and gravitational forces, one can create an equilibrium state by applying a precise offset so that directional forces cancel and balance each other. This was achieved using Argon, a Nobel gas with a larger atomic mass than Helium.
Year: 2012
Media: weather balloons, argon, helium, rope
Contained within the balloons are the different Nobel gases Argon and Helium. They are inert, stable and unreactive. The tendency of balloons to float or sink is dependent on the density of the gas inside the balloon – if it is denser, the balloon will sink and conversely. By taking into account other forces including lift, mass and gravitational forces, one can create an equilibrium state by applying a precise offset so that directional forces cancel and balance each other. This was achieved using Argon, a Nobel gas with a larger atomic mass than Helium.
Year: 2012
Media: latex balloons, rope, helium, argon
Exhibited: ‘Similar Required’, Moxie, Dublin, 2012
Contained within the balloons are the different Nobel gases Argon and Helium. They are inert, stable and unreactive. The tendency of balloons to float or sink is dependent on the density of the gas inside the balloon – if it is denser, the balloon will sink and conversely.
Water bubble form of the Strokkur geyser in Iceland.
Year: 2012
Experiment
The decreased temperature of liquid nitrogen causes molecules of gas to slow down so much that when contained in balloon it will collapse until almost no gas is visible. When removed from the liquid the molecules of gas expand again.
Year: 2012
Experimenting with magnetic levitation using liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors.
Year: 2012
Media: high velocity industrial fan, latex balloon, breath.
Exhibitions:
- ‘Lightness’, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2012
- ‘365 and a quarter’, old A4 art apace, Dublin, 2012
- ‘Now That’s What I Call Praxis’, Occupy Space, Limerick, Ireland, 2012
Air generated by the fan creates an area of low pressure. The balloon sits on this stream of low pressure while high pressure pushes in around it on all sides, allowing sure it to hover permanently above the fan.
Year: 2011
Media: video installation, screen made from cornflour and water solution.
Exhibited as part of ‘Surface Tension: Future of Water (Wet Kunst)’, Science Gallery, Dublin, 2011
A non-Newtonian Fluid is a liquid that changes to a solid when force is applied. The video shows me running on a non-Newtonian fluid, which in this case, is a mixture made from cornflour and water. By running on the liquid, I am repeatedly producing the moment where a non-Newtonian mixture alternates from a liquid to a solid allowing me to run on top of it. However, eventually, I tired out and with no power left it transformed back to a liquid and my feet sink to the bottom. I made a block of cornflour and water, which act as a projection screen.
