I called this show ´brillo´ for a number of reasons. Alot of the work relates to where I grew up in Rathfarnham and many memories I have as a kid there and the brillo pad is certainly one, the smell of it the auster box it still comes in it seemed to be something that was always around.
On the invitation I wanted to present it like a character with supernatural qualities, resiliant and powerfull , messing with it really.When I grew up in Nutgrove it was on the edge of the countryside, a working class estate of little cement houses and pebble dashed walls which struck a stark contrast to the soft hay fields and wild coutrysid that lay just on the otherside of the big wall at the end of Loreto row.I wanted to put in the invitation the things I remember most of being there and stragly the sea was one even though it was bout four or five miles away. It was somewhere we always went Blackrock park or sea point with sandwiches and a flask of tea.
I thought of Rene Magrittes ´woodchopper´ painting where the tree has been freshly cut down but the root has grown over the handle of the hatchet.All of these holding a character,the waters edge, the brillo pad and the tree stump all having a story to tell or a story put onto them or played out before them.
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