Ciaran Murphy
I, See
Ciaran has produced a large series of enigmatic small-scale paintings in a variety of media. Their format and quantity evoke the feeling of unfurling a roll of negatives documenting a journey, or an encounter of an otherworldly place. The works are unsettling and fragmented; the familiar clouds, rocks and sea creatures are rendered strange, while other things are ambigiuous but familiar. Objects are in flux, things float.
At times they seem barely there, as the eye comes into focus. Throughout the residency, work was allowed to begin, gestate and recommence, and the artist acknowledges that this process allows for slippages, changes in direction, re-intrepation of meanings, forgetting and recalling, all of which adds to the dream-like sequence of these new works.
Bennie Reilly
Souvenirs of Portrane
A selection of natural curiosities collected on
the beaches of Portrane including highly unusual seashells, strange rock formations and other questionable artefacts. Bennie presented work in The Cabinet of Curiosities at Newbridge House and at Lynders Mobile Home Park. Tours of the work at Newbridge House took place each day, including a tour of the house.
A bespoke, limited-edition playing card deck featuring Bennie Reilly’s curiosities was available to visitors at Lynders and Newbridge House throughout the exhibition. The playing cards were inspired by the collecting pursuits of Fanny Cobbe at Newbridge House, who kept shells in little boxes she fashioned out of playing cards. This edition made especially for Resort Revelations 2018 also referenced the off-line leisure activities prompted by the chance to reside at Lynders Mobile Home Park.
Marie Farrington
See Level
Marie explores the surfaces and patterns associated with mobile-home parks – the corrugated textures, the striped façades, the functional domestic elements of windows and doors – through sculpture. Using plaster mixed with Portrane seawater, the medium is mixed with the site and the unremarkable becomes the monumental.
Difference Engine
Difference Engine is an evolving touring exhibition, a model of autonomous artist curation by artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler and Jessica Foley. We have adopted the name Difference Engine as a kind of poetic motto for working together creatively, pragmatically and critically. We particularly enjoy Babbage’s aphorism that ‘Jamming is a form of error detection’, and take this as a slogan for our collective experimentation and collaboration.
Difference Engine operates similarly to oral storytelling, where the story changes each time it is spoken. This story is made up of visuals, objects and props, as well as words. There isn’t one set narrative, and so there is a call to the audience to build their own associations and narratives from the pieces we present and organise in the exhibition space. The works brought together through Difference Engine weave personal concerns with concepts of science, geologic time, language, architecture and economics.
Mark Cullen & Gillian Lawler
Inversion I/II
Visitors were invited to explore the Lynders Maze, made from the most typical and idiosyncratic objects of beach holidays in our western windy islands – the coloured and striped windbreaker. Hidden within the maze were a series of chambers, with sculptural inversions waiting to be discovered. The maze itself was based on an aperiodic binary tiling of the plane – a randomised process where the flip of a 50-cent coin decided the direction of each square on the maze’s grid – either diagonally up or down. Be warned – after entering you may be lost for a considerable time…
