Silence/ Limerick City Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival and touring group exhibition ‘Noughties But Nice’ Ireland.

Silence/ 2001 - 2010
Limerick City Gallery of Art/ With Intent 2001/ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2005/ ‘Noughties But Nice’ 2009, touring exhibition, Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow and Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland

This spherical volume responded to the behaviour of the city outside the gallery’s walls. In ‘Silence’ I was interested in examining how elements of my Art practice can be reactivated and go on to inform new work, particularly when it is concerned with issues of theatricality, around objects, performance and decay: I’m fascinated by the tension between discipline and chance that often arises when you take the formal qualities of these practices as the beginning of new work. Between control and chance.

Constructed of white parachute fabric and held up under pressurized air this five-meter sphere (the size is in correlation to the 5m x 10m Limerick City gallery space) pulses from a light/sonic source coming from within, this feed ignites the lux levels/flash, and the context of immediate provocation allowing for a deceleration of that moment in time. A radio gun-microphone live feed, positioned outside the gallery (listening to the city’s exuding sounds) converts this noise into an ongoing light and sonic composition within the orb. The discipline of the sphere is challenged by the randomness of the converted street noise that in turn activates the artwork within that rectilinear space of the gallery.

Part of Limerick City Gallery's permanent collection.