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Artefact

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

A permanent site-specific drawing installed within the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, curated and commissioned by Catherine Marshall, IMMA. The work comprises of a line on a north-south axis (1 x 100 m) planted with snowdrop plants. Recurring Line: North/South has been commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art as an addition to their permanent collection. This is the most significant collection of International Contemporary Art in Ireland. Whilst a drawing, the work locates time and seasonal growth in nature at its core. As such it will only be visible for one month in the year, thereby, depending on knowledge and memory for its existence at other times. The work is to be accompanied by a solo exhibition of drawings at IMMA in January, 2009 when Recurring Line: North/South is visible. The primacy of drawing and the two aspects of my research will be brought together at this point. The work will be formally launched and information disseminated at this time. The principal tool of my research is the discipline of drawing, utilised in my practice to both articulate and explore ideas. At times drawing is used as the principal output; at other times it is a key component of my research which is made manifest in site specific contexts, as in Endpoints: Sand/Coal in Ayrshire (currently being installed in the landscape) where two significant directional forms at either end of the River Ayr infer a line drawn between them. This is an ongoing area of research from a large scale, permanent installation Lines/Plane: Larus/Cygnus which is a linear intervention in the River Garavogue, commissioned by Sligo County Council.

03/01/2007