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- Eilis Fanning
Eilis
Fanning
The River Will Reverse Its Flow
In her degree show work, The River will Reverse Its Flow, Eilis uses paint and scrap metal to create uncanny and dreamlike works of rust, salt, and acidic colour. These speculative landscapes take inspiration from mythology, science fiction and personal experience, to find the weird in the landscape, spinning a neo-folklore tale of elemental transformation.
Drawing from her background of studying outdoor education, Eilis is keenly interested in the raw physical experience of the landscape, which she expresses through her battered and jagged metal-works, which threaten to burst from the wall like a sudden wave, yet suggest with their patinas of rust and scorching, the complex and entangled relationship between humans and their environments. The River Will Reverse Its Flow depicts a strange and flooded world, which questions what it means to inhabit a world we affect but cannot control.