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- Eva Mulhall
Eva
Mulhall
Echoes of the Factory
Eva Mulhall is an artist from Athy, County Kildare, whose work explores the industrial landscape, particularly factories and their surrounding environments. Her paintings go beyond architectural representation, as her work aims to examine ideas of loss and grief and the complex relationship between her family’s experience with the industry that employed them. Having grown up with a factory behind her home that once produced asbestos pipes, which left a devastating impact on her community, Eva’s work is deeply rooted in memory and consequence. The factory, which was once a symbol of economic stability, has since become a site of loss, linked to severe health effects that have claimed the lives of many including her own Grandmother and two of her aunts.
Eva’s 42-part series is an act of mourning, she isolates parts of the factory in a tight uniform matter correlating these paintings to a graveyard, uniform headstones with each painting standing for a lost life. She sees her paintings as an attempt to understand her grief in and as away of showing how the negative impacts of industry can cast long shadows over the residents of a town.
Using oil paints as her main medium, Eva captures the weight of these structures, often depicting them in muted tones, atmospheric light and layered textures that show both permanence and decay. The factory, which was once a symbol of economic stability, has since become a site of loss, linked to severe health effects that have claimed the lives of many across the globe.
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