We travel to remember everything we have forgotten. From Northern Ireland to the Australian outback via the Kalahari desert. This was the beginning of my understanding of the importance of storytelling, to find and know your place in the world and the marks left behind. They are traces of other times and long forgotten people. Stories are tied to the land to honour memory, traces of life. When we talk about the land we also talk about the sky they are hand in hand one looking at the other.
Simple forms are used in repetition to engage the viewer. I take a detail and repeat the small on scale allowing the viewer to escape flowing between the light and shade .
In this piece I've use a simple shape of a bird they are hand cut so I get different sizes and shapes which allows for more movement. They are then put on pins to achieve depth and space. The use of the colour blue in this piece is to represent a fleeting moment of reflection of memory and time.
I'm a full-time artist living in rural county Tyrone I study ceramics at the Belfast school of art York Street .