Contextual Research- Rachel Whiteread

House

Plaster cast- hot water bottle

polyester resin -book cases

One hundred spaces-negative space underneath chairs

Rachel Whiteread has been another infleuntial artist in this area. Her obsession with negative space resonated with the theme I'm working on.  I love her resin casts of negative space.

David Creedon

David Creedon's exhibition ' Ghosts of the Faithful Departed' resonates with this theme that I'm working on- movement through generations moving on and the trace memories that are left behind as evidence of lives once lived.

Piano and the sacred heart

Paddy bottle

The red fireplace

Green Kitchen

degeneration continued

More photographs taken from empty houses left with only traces of memories. One house had a clock still ticking in the kitchen. . . . .

concept- degeneration, generations of families moving on, evidence left behind, memories

I deviated ever so slightly towards the idea of generations moving on. I was driving from Galway to Limerick and I was struck by the amount of derelict houses along the way. I became interested in the idea of empty homes that would have once been full of life, life that has since moved on. I drove around the Limerick countryside and photographed the inside of derelict homes capturing people’s memories, signs of life that were once there. I photocopied the photographs onto transparencies in an effort to capture the essence of the traces of the memories, the memories that are hardly there anymore.

I started to go back to basics. I started drawing all the movement around me. I started drawing my housemates at dance class. I drew the images I could see from the train window. Very rapid sketches. Movement was too fast so I made some video clips of my train journeys to and from Limerick.

September 2011 My movement through my day

I wanted to make the concept of movement more relevant to myself so  I decided to work on  my own movement through my own day. I took a series of photographs. I had a few different ideas .One to make digital media clip of the photographs alongside a soundscape of  sounds from my day. I also want to make a light and sound projection. I’ve always loved musical light boxes and carousels. I experimented with making marks with toys, wheel marks on paper on acetate. Then I decided I wanted to make prints from the photographs of my movement through my day, black silhouette like shadows and project those moving images onto the wall, combined with a soundscape of my movement through my day.