Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, Drawings, 2009
exhibited at Smack Mellon, 2009
These drawings are based on a close study of the inner workings of Ireland’s only oil refinery in Whitegate, which I had access to in August 2009 through the Sirius Art Centre residency. By using shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with...
Drawings, 2007-8
The recent drawings imagine a future world in which the end game of resource consumption at present rates has resulted in the refugee camp atop the water tower, the North Sea oil rig sharing the ocean's horizon with wildfires and garbage scows, where the development plans for suburban McMansions share space with favelas and slums, where a tent encampment settles at the foot of the melting glacier, where power plants overflow their boundaries and...
Fastforwardfossil Drawings, 2007-8
exhibited with Fastforwardfossil; Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2009
This series of drawings began on a residency at Bogliasco in Genoa, Italy. Perched in an olive grove high up above the Ligurian coast, with a distant view of oil tankers on the sea, and the gritty port of Genoa nearby, I began to cover drawing paper with accidental spills of ink, and then to extract shapes from the accidents to begin...