Ornament
2024
cotton lab coats
dimensions variable
Installed in The Visitors at Butler Gallery, 2024. Photographs by Ros Kavanagh courtesy of Butler Gallery.
Recalling the botanical motifs of 18th century decorative plasterwork, Ornament employs papermaking processes to recreate invasive Rhododendron and Cherry laurel leaves formed from the pulped white cotton lab coats of scientific research.
The Visitors was developed thanks to the generous support of an Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award 2024, a Galway City Council Creative Practitioner Bursary 2024, with thanks to Dheeraj Rathore, Research Officer in Tree Improvement at Teagasc, and through a yearlong collaboration with Kunstverein Aughrim in 2024 made possible with the support of The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.