cian handschuh
groundfast
2023
Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA, Dublin, IE
Institute of Art, Design and Technology IADT, Dublin, IE
Curated by Elaine Hoey as Part of the RDS Awards Winner of the RDS Members Fund Award
Exhibition text
groundfast uses wild foraged clays - collected and processed from four dolmen tomb sites in dublin - and places them within urban supporting structures. The reference for which came from the concrete placed at several dolmen sites in Dublin during a conservation project by the OPW in the 1950’s. The modest earthenware vessels are placed in and excavated from these concrete impositions.
