Beds
This modular installation in stonware clay was made during my time as artist in residence in DCU. I made this work in response to research by historical geographer Ruth Mc Manus on the Drumcondra area. The brickwork is one of the most striking aspects of the built fabric of the area. On one of our initial exchanges, Ruth Mc Manus spoke to me about a thumbprint on a brick in Belvedere House.Beds is both a reference to current housing situation and to brickmaking terminology. The bed of the Berkley House brick was laid the wrong way revealing the bricklayers thumbprint.In a nod to the former Drumcondra Quarry I modelled bricks by hand in stoneware clay. As a material response to this the bricks were fired and painted to create this free-standing modular brick installation.
material: fired stoneware clay bricks and pigment
dimensions: variable
Cregan library, DCU, St.Patricks Campus - solo exhibition River & Ridge
Photography: Gillian Buckley
Photography: Gillian Buckley
Photography: Brian Cregan
Photography: Gillian Buckley