Idionumina: Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny

by sharonmccarthy

Wrapped form, 200cm x 30cm x 15cm, Pigments, PVA, Water, & Clothes Hangers, 2012

This site responsive piece – Wrapped Form, used the under-structure of banal clothes hangers to create the form for the sheets to attach to. Unbeknownst to me, the material combination create a flesh looking object, which I would like to homage to Chaim Soutine’s Beef Carcass.

Sheet 1 – assortment of pigments, 50cm x 120cm, Pigment, PVA & Water, 2012

Sheet M split, Pigment, PVA & Water, 20cm x 40cm approx, 2012

“For Idionumina, I wanted to create a site responsive installation using a restricted palette of colour and material to relate to the character of this slowly deteriorating room where Peggy Hughes last lived. Paint-objects were made and installed to highlight the subtleties left within the space, matching the old with the new. Knowing that Peggy was a painter, I wanted to respectfully translate my way of working with pigments and materials into this private environment.”