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Among the dregs of daily toil

Celestial Machines (a), (2019) 

Celestial Machines (b), (2019) 

Immaterial Organs series (Documentation video), Video 7:40mins (2019)

 

Cube Space

 

1.     Subconscious labour, Conscious growth, (2018), Cast Iron, Edition of 10, Dimensions Life size fingernail: 1mm X 12mm

 

Main Gallery

 

2.     Machine Flesh #1 & #8, (2019), Digital image on paper, 120cm x 180cm

 

3.     Celestial Machines (a), (2019) Drop ceiling, Light panel, Robotic arm, Arduino and Circuitry, Dimensions 130cm x 130cm x 95cm (suspended)

 

4.     Celestial Machines (b), (2019), video on flat screen TV, 11:36mins

 

5.     Immaterial organ series

a.     Immaterial Organs: Larynx, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

b.     Immaterial Organs: Bladder, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

c.     Immaterial Organs: Kidney, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

d.     Immaterial Organs: Liver, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

e.     Immaterial Organs: Pancreas, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

f.      Immaterial Organs: Lung, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

g.     Immaterial Organs: Small Intestines, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

h.     Immaterial Organs: Eye, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

i.      Immaterial Organs: Brain, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

j.      Immaterial Organs: Heart, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

k.     Immaterial Organs: Prostate, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

l.      Immaterial Organs: Stomach, (2019), Glazed ceramic, Dimensions variable

 

6.     1 and 0 paper balls, (2020), Artist’s redundancy letter from lecturing post, 3D-Printed Sandstone, thermally printed computer code, Dimensions variable

 

Dark Gallery Room

 

7.     Documentation video, (2019), 7:40mins

 

Photography by Louis Haugh

Exhibited at The LAB, Dublin

 

Read the review by Carissa Farrell here: Visual Artists’ News Sheet Online – March-April 2020 

 

With thanks to; Michael O’Hara for the handout text, John Beattie for shooting ‘Documentation Piece’, Christopher Steenson for systems design on ‘ Celestial Machines’, Peter Nugent for systems design on ‘1 and 0 Paper balls’, ArtFx ltd. for laser cutting for ‘Immaterial Organs series’, also Fire Station Artists’ Studios, TU Dublin, GradCam, The Stationery Store, Sheena Barrett and all the staff at the LAB.

Installation view 01
Installation view 02
Installation view 03
Machine Flesh #1
Immaterial organ series
Immaterial Organs: Small Intestines
Documentation video
Documentation video
Celestial Machines (a)
Celestial Machines (a)
Celestial Machines (b)
1 and 0 paper balls 01
1 and 0 paper balls 02
1 and 0 paper balls 03
Subconscious labour, Conscious growth 01
Subconscious labour, Conscious growth 02
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