River Series 2012
Date: 2012
Dimensions: 700 x 500 mm ( series of 6 images)
Materials: Ceramic
Techniques: Collaged ceramics with decal prints and impressed or monoprinted words
Commissioned by: Beaumont Hospital Arts Committee
Location: Beaumont Hospital
Concept: The ‘River Series’ is a set of 6 ceramic collages of Bridges over the river Liffey in Dublin fusing poetry and proverbs with stylised decorative elements found on the bridges design.
- ‘All the Rivers’– Poolbeg with Bull Wall Wooden Bridge – “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.”
- ‘Loopline’ – The Railway bridge and the Custom House – “A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock and George’s quay.” From James Joyce’s Ulysses.
- ‘Riverrun’ – The James Joyce Bridge- “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” First sentence from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
- ‘Ha’penny Bridge’– Officially ‘The Liffey Bridge’, the toll to cross this cast iron footbridge in the 1800’s was a half penny. Prints from casts of old ha’pennys are featured on the edge of the ceramic picture.
- ‘Dublin Dancing’ – Detail of the mythical Hippocampus ( half horse half fish) on Grattan Bridge – “Dublin dancing, A green wave on the river Liffey”
- ‘Water Under the Bridge’– Details of the gold coloured decorative cast iron features on Sean Heuston Bridge.
