'The Confluence' is a depiction of the water courses of Dublin and an understanding of how the city and its inhabitants interact with them. Informed by cartography and working from the waters as a primary source, this work wishes to inform viewers of the important role the watercourses have to the city and to present it as a vessel for the city’s memory.
This work wishes to pose ontological questions about the city, using the rivers as channels that carve their path through the liminal spaces where the city ends and begins. The painting’s composition is oil based, but materials such as coal and tar are used to depict the challenges created by the tension between the city as a completely artificial creation, and its existence as a living organism.
'The Confluence'; Oil on board, 65 x 85 cm
'Meniscus' and 'Screen'; Oil on canvas, 180 x 60cm and lacquered screen 200 x 80cm
'Pilgrims Way'; Oil on canvas, 55 x 70cm
'Meniscus'; oil on canvas, 180 x 60cm
'Bed and River Map'; Oil on board, 70 x 90cm
'Emma'; Oil on lacquered board, 16 x 22cm