My work explores the manmade habitat through which I move and interact. It reflects my personal visual experience as an urban resident in Limerick over the last four years, an experience that is captured through functional ware. Limerick is a city of contrasts. The imposing architecture of recent unfinished urban development defines the streets – landmarks of interrupted urban renewal evidence their cold, exposed grey concrete and steel structures.
In contrast, I am equally drawn to the bright and colourful graffiti and street art that is spread across the surface of the city; calling cards of passing dwellers which illustrate the creativity, energy, and colour of its inhabitants. It is the juxtaposition of these markings of artistic expression, against the contrasting cold, built environment that prompts my creative exploration. The interaction between these two aspects – one structural and the other surface – underpins and informs the development of these slip cast functional forms.
