VISUAL CULTURE

Isn't it Normal, P.S.1, New York; Albright Knox, Buffalo, New York State, 
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Crawford Gallery, Cork. 1999-2000

Installation comprising of live external sound source being continuously being modified by an effects processor is fed to loudspeakers surrounding four 10’ high industrial shelving units with 240 light bulbs, inserted through the shelves, these have their intensity controlled by the modify sound source. This enables the work to be cyclical, changing with the ongoing external sound scape.

A long, thin thread, Nicholas Grimshaw Pier 4A, Heathrow, 
London, 1996

View of two-way pier containing 60 black vacuum formed spheres, enveloping seven digit clock counters with a memory, which are linked by twin infra-red barrier beams, which record in and out going passenger flow to and from Ireland over a period of a year.

Policing of Pleasure, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1995

View of space with screened windows, 30 bags of rock salt and cast plaster hemispheres 76cm x 102cm with 90cm neon rods piercing the base of the cast.

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1995

Four, of five, 7-inch video monitors mounted on aluminium brackets. The video plays images of thunder and storm. The tape runs on a 30 minutes loop relayed from a central video processor.

Temporal Change, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1994

60 plaster casts in 9 different shapes with warm interior light source connected to light sensor on window, mimicking the daylight outside. Five 2 metres long plaster casts on back wall housing fluorescent strip lights.

9 black wall cases each measuring 122cm x 100cm x 26cm. Inside each case is a photographic image of a fig tree. The 9 cases are pieced together and in front of each box is placed a black vacuum formed shape, which is lit from within. Three speakers on each side emitting a sound track of thunder and rain falling on foliage, these tracks are on a 2-minute loop stored on a digital track housed in a central computer terminal

Sense of Time, Institute of Contemporary Art - P.S.1 Gallery, 
New York, 1993

Cast plaster shelf forty feet long with underbelly of chrome and mirrored bulbs, distant image of cast plaster containers with light bulbs sandwiched between. Unseen photograph of wave breaking, 12’ x 10’, made up of 48 sheets of fibre based paper 16” x 20”

Lux Europe, City of Edinburgh, October 1992-January 1993

Four individual cast busts on aluminium armature with movement detector triggering moving lights. Logic control housed within fibreglass casing. Cast fibreglass fish with internal black light source, controlled by on-board clock.

Barclays Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1992

Corrugated galvanised steel, wooden and steel supports, steel tracks on wheels enabling rotation by timers and motor.

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