unknown bounty, draft, (. . .)

Created as part of Strata, a three-person show at CCA Derry-Londonderry, these friezes are inspired by the plaster rococo adornment of palladian stately homes. These two architectural principles married in Ireland, to create ordered, symmetrical re-presentations of natural splendour on interior walls. Drawing from the plaster decoration of Florencecourt (home to the 3rd Earl of Enniskillen who invited this land's first documented underground exploration), the work explores inherited dominion, material symmetries of calcite, and representation of agricultural land and its murky anarchy in underground space. 

unknown bounty (2024), plaster, rope, iron powder, bone, wood, paint, moonmilk (responsibly sourced).

(. . .) 2024 plaster, moonmilk.

draft (2024), linen, clay, calcite.

Photography courtesy of CCA Derry Londonderry, all photos by Paola Bernardelli.