UNTITLED
Sculpture:
Porcelain and black crank paperclay, steel, various types of wire, found materials
The work is a series of sculptural objects. These are made from steel, found materials, black crank, and porcelain paper clay with monoprint underglaze and rust transfer elements. This work takes its starting point from material explorations of the Royal Canal in Dublin.
It began by responding to construction sites that had been stilled during the pandemic at Ashtown, where I was living. These pieces are made in dialogue with the canal’s construction histories and with processes of walking along canal towpaths, collecting detritus, taking photographs, drawing, and assembling elements on site. The pieces explore states of uncertainty, transformation, and collapse within these spaces. The research underpinning this work critically examines narratives of linear progress, planning ideologies, and dichotomous understandings of the built environment and the natural landscape.
This work was created in the Fire Station Artist Studios (FSAS) workshop as part of their sculpture award and with the support of Fingal County Council and The Arts Council.
Aideen Farrell
is an installation artist. She uses found materials, wood, metal, wire, ceramics, and drawing to explore how built environments are represented and shaped. Her work weighs polished, fixed designs of architecture and urban planning against underlying conditions of precarity and collapse.
Aideen graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2017 with a degree in Fine Art Painting and Visual Culture. She is a member of A4 sounds studios in Dublin. Solo exhibitions include A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects 2019 and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre in 2018. Selected recent group shows include Halfway to Falling, in the Lord Mayor's Pavilion in cork, 2021, Cahoots online exhibition with Sample Studios, 2020. She has been a recipient of the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme from 2018 to 2021, and The Arts Council’s Professional Development Award 2020 and Visual Art Bursary 2021. She was awarded the Dublin City Council Residency at St Patrick's Lodge 2018-2019, the Fire Station Artists Studios Graduate Award in 2017 and Sculpture Award for 2021.