"A maritime child" hints at a central nervous system, influenced by sensory formations carried through the low-lying modernist building at Interface–its cantilevered canopies, inoperative industrial architecture and the connective infrastructures of the former salmon hatchery. The exhibition, curated by Michael Hill, comprises several new works that blend sculpture and painting, as well as re-made, re-finished and re-appropriated sculptures: outdoors and in two intimate interior spaces.
Egan responds to the atmosphere of pathos and human fallibility felt within the site. Her subtle but deliberate sculptural forms resist the romanticism of the ruinous outdoor tanks and pumps, and also the expansive natural landscape that encloses the site in the picturesque Lough Inagh Valley. Instead Egan’s works merge with–and present opportunities to accept and relate to–the rawness and fragility of both overwhelming environments.
