Veins of Other
24 May – 6 July 2024
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Tread
Twelve blocks of various coloured marble form a line along the gallery floor.
The blocks originated in many different countries of the world: Italy, Brazil, Syria, Portugal, China – where they were geologically formed over millennia.
On each block a foot is carved. Some appear fossil-like within the stone like evidence of human presence, others seem to step across the petrified earth. The glorious colours range from blue to black to pink to white to amber yellow...
The marble was found in the store of Studio Carlo Nicoli in Carrara. They are offcuts from other jobs, showing machinery cuts and scars from their extrication. Tread reveals the limited presence of a human on earth, embedded over the millennia of geological time, sediment and pressure.
This work was commissioned by the Tia Collection, Santa Fe, USA
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Tread, 2023, Hand carved Marble, Travertine, Quartzite
12 different stones from 12 different, international locations
1. Pentelikon White, 47 x 62 x 47 cm (Greece)
2. Black Marine, 45 x 40 x 44 cm (Guautemala)
3. Red Travertine, 33.5 x 40 x 59 cm (Middle East)
4. White Statuario, 39 x 37.5 x 37 cm (Tuscany, Italy)
5. Macauba Azul, 77 x 44x 39 cm (Portugal)
6. Travertine Yellow, 49 x 54 x 32 cm (Iran)
7. Green Tanganica, 60 x 30 x 52 cm (Tanzania)
8. White Statuarietto, 75 x 50 x 29 cm (Carrara, Italy)
9. Black Belgian, 52 x 23.5 x 68 cm (Belgium)
10. Yellow Sienna, 79 x 74 x 41 cm (Sienna, Italy)
11. Rosa Portugal, 36 x 23 x 43 cm (Portugal)
12. Red Pernice Breccia, 56 x 45 x 39 cm(Verona, Italy)
Caption
Bloodlines
Bloodlines is a series of photographs of the artist's parents which are printed large and framed underneath sheets of extraordinary red-veined, hand-blown glass.
Rivers of deep red and captured bubbles hover above the series of images taken in the 1940s. A central diptych shows a man looking in one direction through binoculars and a woman looking the other way out of a window. Others in the series show her parents at full sail, yacht rigging and views through the wild Fastnet Lighthouse and Daunt lightship - life at sea off the south coast of Ireland where her parents met.
Bloodlines Series (Binoculars & Window), 2023, diptych, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
Bloodlines Series (Under sail), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
Bloodlines Series (Bow & Stern), 2024, diptych, framed photographs with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
Bloodlines Series (Daunt lightship), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
Bloodlines Series (Sails & Fastnet), 2024, diptych, framed photographs with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
Bloodlines Series (Garden child), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique
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Bloodlines Series (Binoculars & Window), 2023, diptych, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 63 x 96 cm framed each, 54 x 93.3 cm
Bloodlines Series (Under sail), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 54 x 93.3 cm framed
Bloodlines Series (Bow & Stern), 2024, diptych, framed photographs with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 63.7 x 90.7 cm framed each
Bloodlines Series (Sails & Fastnet), 2024, diptych, framed photographs with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 61.2 x 92.7 cm framed each
Bloodlines Series (Garden child), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 34.5 x 45.5 cm framed
Bloodlines Series (Daunt lightship), 2024, framed photograph with red and white hand-poured stained glass, unique, 53.7 x 91.5 cm framed