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- Sorcha McNamara
Sorcha
McNamara
Dash / Fragment / Line Break
Sorcha’s work encompasses ideas of process, intuition and poetic form. She considers how the languages of various materials can cohere to each other, or not. The work allows a sense of playfulness to occur in a deconstructive process of painting – unpicking its components and pulling apart the remnants, in order to capture something intangible within something physical.
She draws upon the symbol of a window for its poetic condition – a space frame containing an idealised distance, a detachment from reality, while still maintaining the intimacy of an inner space. This duality, or paradox, of intimacy and distance is questioned throughout the work.
A large part of her process is based around chance, resourcefulness and improvisation: finding objects in the exterior environs of the studio, seeing the potential in the discarded or the often unnoticed parts of a place. The sensual qualities of materials, when arranged in certain compositions, can create an atmosphere in the same way a poet or a writer would create with words.
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