School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art
Josephine O’Connor
Throughout my work, I am always drawn to the subject of place, either found or randomly chosen, places have acted as collection spots of information for me. I am interested in intervention, micro disturbances, and revealing hidden matter, forensics’, soundscapes and stories.
My work tries to investigate the earth and its fragile systems; I am trying to understand ways in which global events can link to local systems, creating fractals of enquiry. This inquisition into sound, histories, and context often centre around the focus of discovering the human ghost trail or evidence which we leave behind. By looking closely at something un-assuming, there is often a whole world to be found.
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From The River To the Sea
Rusted Pipes emit an eerie light, gold objects glint, a feather rests against boot trodden sand, shadows are cast against murky walls, a clang of metal, chime of machinery, shattered shards of glass, brick and rock are fossils amongst clay grey mud,
we follow glittering fragments from the River to the Sea.
Combining sound, film, text and object installation we follow a journey along the river Clyde ‘From the River to the Sea’. A walk across many worlds, the work combines found Ariel imagery and sounds to create a distorting yet physical experience of walking the Clyde and moving through a place. This is rooted in our immediate landscape but also calls for a wider acknowledgment of our links to the world, and how all that exists is interlinked. All water is connected so connects us all.
None of us are free until all of us are free.
For The Sleepers in that Quiet Earth
Taken from the last line of book – wuthering heights, ‘For the Sleepers in that quiet Earth’ is a sculptural and text piece that incorporates light and shadow to examine stillness in Landscape, scrap wood is cut to form mountain like forms, amongst them, the outline of a ‘sleeping giant’ the shadow cast becomes obscure between the human and landscape.
