Ennis Series
2016
I sculpt in cloth. It was in the making of the Ennis series where I began to trust my sewing to bring out the energy of the canvas I now work in. In “Ennis” are, indentations, protrusions, undulations and repetition in the canvas, an outcome from numerous pattern cutting experiments.
The works in Ennis became a tableau for my own progress in mastering the material and molding its form into shapes that I personally haven't made but also hadn’t seen otherwise. Look at Cooper, a three-dimensional sunburst, or O’Sullivan, an embodiment of the silvery sky, the green rolling hills and shapely valleys of County Down.
It’s in “Ennis” that I experimented with ideas of form and shadow inspired by the varied landscape of North Ireland where I was born and raised. These gentle reliefs offer home.
O’Sullivan, 2016. 64" x 24”, unbleached canvas
O’Halloran, 2016. 60” x 24”, unbleached artist canvas
Dunbar, 2016. 72” x 48”, unbleached canvas
Russell, 2016. 84h x 36w ins., unbleached canvas
Bush, 2016. 54” x 34”, unbleached canvas
O’Connor, 2016. 44” x 44”, unbleached canvas
O’Dogerty, 2016. 72” x 24”, unbleached canvas
Morgan, 2016. 72” x 27”, unbleached canvas
Flanagan 4848, 2016. 48” x 48”, unbleached canvas
Munn, 2016. 60” x 60”, unbleached canvas
Cooper, 2017. 36” x 24”, unbleached canvas
Flanagan, 2016. 60” x 60”, unbleached canvas
McGovan, 2017. 66” x 36”, unbleached canvas
O’Neill, 2017. 36” x 36”, unbleached canvas
Breen, 2016. 36” x 24”, unbleached canvas
Sian Morgan, 2016. 60” x 60”, unbleached canvas