Solo exhibition title Translucent
By
Claire Mc Dermott
2024
Installation of solo exhibition at Headstone Manor and Museum. Open from 11-3 pm on Tur/Frid/Sat/Sun until 2nd February 2024
For this solo exhibition titled Translucent, at Headstone Manor and Museum, Mc Dermott’s combines glass and plants in her photographs and sculptures to explore semi-transparent dimensions, creating Sculptural Environments of Translucent Boundaries.
Glass was incorporated into her artworks as the bristles of a plumed seed resembled it when viewed under a microscope. Prioritising sustainability she hopes that glass is favoured as a better alternative to plastic. Plastic degrades as soon as it is manufactured and microplastics can’t be recycled which highlights the need to ban all non-biodegradable plastic.
For the photograph in the main image, titled Wild Jar, Mc Dermott used layers of reflection to show overlapping boundaries without obscuring the wildflower. These layers created a semi-transparent effect creating Sculptural Environments of Translucent Boundaries.
The winter opening times at the museum are from 11-3 pm on Tur/Frid/Sat/Sun. The Translucent exhibition will be on view until 2nd February 2025
Claire Mc Dermott with her sculpture titled 'For Life'
Looking though the museum cabinet to view the sculpture 'For Life' the view can see the photographs in the foreground titled title Touch and Natural. Both photographs are shown here mounted on aluminium with battens but can be bought as a single photograph. They are both Size 33.1” x 23.4” (841mm x 594 mm)
As you enter the gallery the first museum cabinet houses three sculptures. No1titled Segment Firring, which is a beaded sculpture and drawing of a plumed seed Aster ericoides ‘Blue Star’. No2, title Sola Roots, a futuristic plant made with discarded garden solar lights which relates to land fill, houses in a square box. No3, Title Sola Bud, a sculptor of a futuristic plant bud has a fabric bubble to create its own air cloud making reference to the air that we breath; pollution containing microplastics. Mc Dermott used the foreground of the museum cabinet to house the back of the sculpture title ‘For Life’. By cutting a hole in the backdrop the intention was to use daylight to light up it yellow and white glass globe giving a warm feeling of hope.
A photograph of members of the public viewing the photographs titled Descend, which is an image of a iridescent glass bowl and plumed seed of a Tragopogon dubius (salsify) and a photograph titled Entirely, a crimson and lilac Hibiscus syriacus ‘Woodbridge’ (Rose of Sharon) spent flower and a fluted glass. Both images are mounted on aluminium with batten and are 33.1” x 23.4” (841mm x 594 mm), Year 2024 *In botany, the flower's family name or genera is written first, then the individual flower's name, and in brackets the common name. The common name can vary depending on the area or what country you are in.
The gallery is in the front of the Manor house and was the former kitchen. Looking through the museum cabinet to view the sculpture 'For Life' you can also view the fireplace wall. From left to right, photograph No1. titled Defined Posture is a spiralling glass handle of a Bonbon jar beside a spent bluebell. No2. titled Wild Jar is of a green bonbon jar with the wildflower called Lapsana communis (Nipplewort) No3. title Perched is of October rose petals and a glass bowl on legs.
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