Everyday is like Sunday - remade 2019

I completed this piece for an art fair in Barcelona in 2013 where I was exhibiting through the German gallery called Marc De Coen.

I was very happy with the finish of the piece but I felt it was too heavy looking and flat in appearance. Still it was a really accomplished piece of work which took several experiments and attempts to get to a completion stage. The sanding and polishing of such a piece is exceptionally laborious and took I don't remember how long to do and that's not to mention the cost of materials. So for these reasons I was very apprenhensive about altering it in any way.

I had exhibited this work in Germany, Spain and in Ireland at The RHA Annual exhibition after which I loaned it to the Dean Hotel on Harcourt street. The piece was returned to Madrid in basically two pieces. I almost had a feckin heart attack when I opened the wooden box on it's arrival to Madrid. I had nobody else to blame but myself since I was the one who had wrapped the piece in hast before I left Dublin.

Somewhere on it´s transit to Madrid the box had been dropped and the dense heavy weight of the cast resin fractured. It had split from top to bottom but fortunately the break was extremely straight. After a period of time I drew up some sketches and then just went at it with the angle grider and a stone cutting disk diamater 16 inch.

Somewhere on it´s transit to Madrid the box had been dropped and the dense heavy weight of the cast resin fractured. It had split from top to bottom but fortunately the break was extremely straight. After a period of time I drew up some sketches and then just went at it with the angle grider and a stone cutting disk diamater 16 inch.