(dis)appearances [PADA] 2020 — Sorcha McNamara

PADA studio, December 2020

Globular, 2020 - oil, acrylic, mirror glass, variants of wood, 42 x 50.5cm

Coagulate, 2020 - oil, acrylic, mirror glass, variants of wood, 40 x 51cm

Tongues, 2020 - oil, acrylic, mirror glass, variants of wood, 41.5 x 59cm

Scamallach, 2020 - oil, acrylic, mirror glass, variants of wood, 45.7 x 53.5cm

Straddle, 2020 - oil, acrylic, mirror glass, variants of wood, 42 x 54cm

Touchings, 2020 - install view

Touchings, 2020 - install view

Touchings (Berry), 2020 - acrylic and oil on reclaimed panel, 33.7 x 29.8 x 1.6cm

Touchings, 2020 - install view

Touchings (Blue), 2020 - acrylic and oil on reclaimed panel, 33.7 x 28.7 x 1.6cm

Touchings (Blue) 2020 - side view

Touchings (Grass), 2020 - acrylic and oil on reclaimed panel, 33.7 x 29.8 x 1.6cm

Touchings, 2020 - install view

Touchings (Peach), 2020) - acrylic and oil on reclaimed panel, 33.7 x 28.5 x 1.6cm

Touchings (Grey), 2020 - acrylic and oil on reclaimed panel, 33.7 x 28.5 x 1.6cm

Touchings (Grey) - side view

Touchings (Grey) - install view

Touchings - morning light

Caress, 2020 - oil on found panels, 25 x 30cm, part of Salad Days at PADA Gallery

Caress - to the left

Caress - to the right

Cannulas, 2020 - mixed media installation/site-responsive drawing

Cannulas (detail) - glass, acrylic, charcoal, graphite pencil, wire, plastic tubes, dust, reclaimed drawer frame

Cannulas, 2020 - part of Salad Days at PADA Gallery

Cannulas - front view

Cannulas - from the left

Cannulas (remains) - site-responsive drawing, charcoal, graphite pencil, glass, acrylic wood

Cherubs, 2020 - as installed in Tinco Paint Factory at PADA Studios

Cherubs, 2020 - site-specific installation

Cherub I - oil and dust on reclaimed perspex, 127 x 39cm

Cherub I (install view)

Cherub II - oil and dust on reclaimed perspex, 176 x 39cm

Cherub III - oil an dust on reclaimed perspex, 168 x 35cm

Cherub IV - oil and dust on reclaimed perspex, 176 x 35cm

Cherub V - oil and dust on perspex with broken glass, 51 x 33cm

Cherub II (detail)

Cherub II (detail)

Cherub III (with windowed reflection)

Cherub III (detail)

Cherub III (detail)

Cherub V (side view)

Tailwhip I - oil on ambiguous plastic material, 190 x 131 x 9cm

Straddle - in situ

Tailwhips (I and II) - install view

In progress - positionings

In progress - slippery paint

In progress - lightbeams

(dis)appearances, 2020 - PADA Gallery, morning light, entrance view

(dis)appearances, 2020 - morning light, mixed media installation

Cherub V [(dis)appearances]

Tongues with Touchings [(dis)appearances]

Tongues (install)

Tongues (install detail) - oil on ambiguous material

(dis)appearances - detail, malleable material with thread

(dis)appearances, 2020 - morning light

(dis)appearances, 2020 - morning light

Cherub I [(dis)appearances]

Cherub I [(dis)appearances] morning

Cherub I [(dis)appearances] morning

Cherub II [(dis)appearances]

Cherub II - detail [(dis)appearances]

Cherub II - detail [(dis)appearances]

extended floor drawing - chalk, charcoal and graphite pencil

into the grooves

(dis)appearances - detail, wire, thread masking tape

(dis)appearances - detail, wire, thread masking tape

Cherub III - detail [(dis)appearances]

Cherub III [(dis)appearances]

Work made on residency at PADA Gallery & Studios, Portugal - October to December 2020

A concern with the insides of things. Present-tense, no fixed state.

Adaptations of skies, surfaces of buildings, grids, lines, movements of light. The exact origin of my materials was often unknown, their original functions unclear, due to their visual ambiguities, the altered states in which I found them in, taken out of their context, thrown away.

Shadows made by windows, standing, materialised. Perpendiculars – intersections of vertical and horizontal. To unify the abstract with the concrete.

The wall is the sky, the floor is the earth. A confluence, co-mingling of landscapes, trying to find ways to reconcile your insides with what is outside.

Interludes, 2021

Edging/Tilting, 2019/20